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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the protagonist of the novel?
(a) 27.
(b) 19.
(c) 51.
(d) 34.

2. What literary style does the narrator describe as rhetoric for rhetoric's sake in Chapter 17?
(a) French nouvelle vague.
(b) Post-modern.
(c) Dadaist.
(d) Western modernist.

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

4. In Chapter 15, the writer decides to book a flight where?
(a) Hakone.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Tsujido.
(d) Sapporo.

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

6. After dinner Yuki insists that the writer take a drive so that they can do what in Chapter 19?
(a) Look at the sunset.
(b) Look for her mother.
(c) Talk.
(d) Listen to music.

7. The Sheep Man says that the only thing the writer can do is what in Chapter 11?
(a) Dance.
(b) Believe.
(c) Listen.
(d) Look.

8. How does the receptionist describe the air as smelling just before she had a strange experience in the hotel in Chapter 7?
(a) Like sulphur.
(b) Moldy.
(c) Like beer.
(d) Like garbage.

9. Who does the bartender say the girl at the bar is waiting for in Chapter 6?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her friend.

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

11. What is the name of Yuki's mother in the novel?
(a) Kiki.
(b) Ame.
(c) Mei.
(d) Miss Yumiyoshi.

12. When does the receptionist wake up the writer in Chapter 12?
(a) 3 p.m.
(b) 9 a.m.
(c) 5 a.m.
(d) 11 a.m.

13. Whom does the writer see seducing a woman in the film in Chapter 14?
(a) The Sheep Man.
(b) Ame.
(c) Ryoichi Gotanda.
(d) Hiraku Makimura.

14. The receptionist at the hotel had a strange experience on what floor, as related in Chapter 7?
(a) 16th.
(b) 1st.
(c) 5th.
(d) 12th.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Yuki mention which chills the writer in Chapter 19?

2. The narrator refers to his job as shoveling what in Chapter 2?

3. Where does the writer have breakfast in Chapter 14?

4. In Chapter 12, the writer returns to the bedroom and is plagued by what?

5. What is significant about the manner in which the Sheep Man speaks in the novel?

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