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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. After the assignment is finished, the writer decides to go where in Chapter 4?
(a) Yokohama.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Tsujido.
(d) Sapporo.

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

3. The interior of the hotel in Chapter 5 is described as what by the narrator?
(a) Opulent.
(b) Dingy.
(c) Gaudy.
(d) Dilapitated.

4. How old is the girl that the narrator sees in the bar in Chapter 6?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

5. Where does the protagonist go on assignment in Chapter 2?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Sapporo.
(c) Hokkaido.
(d) Akasaka.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How old is the protagonist of the novel?

5. What is the profession of Yuki's father in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the protagonist discover at the library in Chapter 7?

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

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

4. Where does the protagonist tell his business associates he must go in Chapter 3? Why?

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

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

7. What jealousies consume the protagonist in Chapter 14? Why?

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

9. What fantasy consumes the protagonist in Chapter 9?

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

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