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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) Animals.
(b) Cars.
(c) Men.
(d) Restaurants.

2. What was the manager's reaction when the receptionist told him about her strange experience, as told in Chapter 7?
(a) He sent the janitor to check it out.
(b) He went to check it out.
(c) He told her not to tell anyone.
(d) He said she was crazy.

3. 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 cheapest piece of real estate.
(d) The wrong place.

4. What is the narrative voice of the novel?
(a) Third person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) First person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman who lived with the writer at the Dolphin Hotel?

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

3. How long has it been since the protagonist has seen Kiki in Chapter 4?

4. The protagonist makes an analogy of the Dolphin Hotel to what in Chapter 1?

5. The assignment the protagonist goes on in Chapter 2 involves writing for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the protagonist of the novel introduced in Chapter 1? What is he obsessed with in the beginning of the narrative?

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

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

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

5. What led to a previous depression of the protagonist's, as described in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

9. How does the narrator pass his day in Chapter 7? What are his emotions like?

10. What stranger does the writer feel a strange connection with in Chapter 6?

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