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

2. What is the name of Yuki's father in the novel?
(a) Bookish.
(b) Hiraku Makimura.
(c) Fisherman.
(d) Ryoichi Gotanda.

3. The Sheep Man warns that the writer could get stuck in what in Chapter 11?
(a) Suspended animation.
(b) The in-between.
(c) A wormhole.
(d) The netherworld.

4. When the protagonist thinks of the Dolphin Hotel in Chapter 1, he recalls it as being what?
(a) A skyscraper.
(b) Extravagant.
(c) A dive.
(d) Opulent.

5. The protagonist makes an analogy of the Dolphin Hotel to what in Chapter 1?
(a) A button.
(b) A dungeon.
(c) A match.
(d) A castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does the writer go to dinner in Chapter 13?

2. After dinner Yuki insists that the writer take a drive so that they can do what in Chapter 19?

3. The protagonist's job consisted mostly of what type of work in the beginning, as described in Chapter 3?

4. What causes the writer to leave the Sheep Man's room in Chapter 11?

5. In the stead where the Dolphin Hotel once stood is a building that is designed in what style in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did the protagonist re-enter society after his depression, as described in Chapter 2?

2. How does the narrator describe the Dolphin Hotel in Chapter 1?

3. How does the protagonist describe his entrance into his profession in Chapter 3?

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

5. What favor does the hotel receptionist ask of the protagonist in Chapter 15? What is his response?

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

7. How does the hotel receptionist describe her experience on the sixteenth floor in Chapter 7?

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

9. On what assignment does the protagonist go in Chapter 2? How does he describe his job?

10. Where does the author arrive in Chapter 4? What does he do after arriving?

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