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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The assignment the protagonist goes on in Chapter 2 involves writing about what?
(a) Men.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Cars.
(d) Animals.

2. Where do the writer and the girl arrive in Chapter 16?
(a) Haneda.
(b) Kathmandu.
(c) Sapporo.
(d) Tokyo.

3. The Sheep Man tells the writer that his people were chased where long ago in Chapter 11?
(a) The swamp.
(b) The desert.
(c) The woods.
(d) The mountains.

4. What is the name of the young girl whom the writer accompanies on her flight in Chapter 16?
(a) Ame.
(b) Yuki.
(c) Saki.
(d) Kiki.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In describing Ryoichi Gotanda, the writer comments that he never understood how someone could be so what?

2. How old is the protagonist of the novel?

3. What is the name of Ryoichi Gotanda's latest movie in the novel?

4. What has the Dolphin Hotel been renamed in Chapter 4?

5. Where does the narrator go to find the news article about the selling of the hotel in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the protagonist describe the interior of the hotel in Chapter 5?

2. How does the protagonist describe Ryoichi Gotanda in Chapter 8?

3. What thoughts consume the protagonist in Chapter 13? Why?

4. How does the protagonist feel when he returns to his hotel room in Chapter 12? When does he sleep and awaken?

5. Where does the protagonist decide to go after his assignment ends in Chapter 4? What does he find upon arrival?

6. Where does the protagonist arrive in Chapter 16? Where does he decide to stay?

7. How does Yuki describe her relationship with her parents in Chapter 16?

8. Why does the hotel receptionist speak under false pretenses in Chapter 7?

9. What causes the protagonist to encounter "Unrequited Love" in Chapter 14? What is his reaction to the film?

10. How does the narrator compare the old Dolphin Hotel to its replacement in Chapter 6?

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