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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the young girl doing the following morning when the narrator sees her again in Chapter 6?
(a) Leaving the hotel.
(b) Sitting in the lobby.
(c) Having breakfast with her mother.
(d) Swimming in the pool.

2. The Sheep Man's world is a place in the shadows where people go when they need to find out what?
(a) How things are connected.
(b) Why they are sick.
(c) The local gossip.
(d) The meaning of life.

3. What kind of car does the protagonist drive?
(a) Lexus.
(b) Nissan.
(c) Subaru.
(d) Mitsubishi.

4. What does the writer sit on in the strange room in Chapter 11?
(a) A stool.
(b) Books.
(c) A pillow.
(d) A chair.

5. How long has it been since the protagonist has seen Kiki in Chapter 4?
(a) 41 days.
(b) 10 weeks.
(c) 4.5 years.
(d) 18 months.

6. In Chapter 9, the writer develops an elaborate fantasy about what actress?
(a) Jodie Foster.
(b) Susan Serandon.
(c) Julia Roberts.
(d) Meg Ryan.

7. In Chapter 9, the narrator has an eerie experience on what floor of the hotel?
(a) 15th.
(b) 4th.
(c) 7th.
(d) 10th.

8. For how long did the protagonist remain reclusive following his divorce and depression, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) 12 days.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 5 weeks.

9. What is significant about the manner in which the Sheep Man speaks in the novel?
(a) He starts every sentence with "I think."
(b) His words all run together.
(c) He writes everything down instead of using his voice.
(d) He never speaks the letter "a."

10. In the stead where the Dolphin Hotel once stood is a building that is designed in what style in Chapter 4?
(a) Victorian style.
(b) Colonial style.
(c) East Indian style.
(d) Bauhaus-Art Deco style.

11. What causes the writer to leave the Sheep Man's room in Chapter 11?
(a) The temperature drops.
(b) It gets very dark.
(c) It gets very bright.
(d) The temperature rises.

12. In the stead where the Dolphin Hotel once stood is a building that is how many stories tall in Chapter 4?
(a) 41.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 26.

13. What is the name of the receptionist at the hotel whom the narrator befriends?
(a) Ame.
(b) Mei.
(c) Miss Yumiyoshi.
(d) Hiraku Makimura.

14. The narrator of the novel describes the Dolphin Hotel as having been built where in Chapter 1?
(a) The ideal place.
(b) The cheapest piece of real estate.
(c) On the water.
(d) The wrong place.

15. At what time does the writer go to dinner in Chapter 13?
(a) 6 p.m.
(b) 9 p.m.
(c) 4 p.m.
(d) 11 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the receptionist wake up the writer in Chapter 12?

2. In Chapter 15, the writer is asked to accompany a young girl on a flight because the girl's mother had left her there to take an assignment where?

3. How many times has the protagonist been divorced in the novel?

4. When the protagonist thinks of the Dolphin Hotel in Chapter 1, he recalls it as being what?

5. What was the manager's reaction when the receptionist told him about her strange experience, as told in Chapter 7?

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