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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Yuki's father in the novel?

2. The writer and photographer take a day after the assignment to do what in Chapter 4?

3. The Sheep Man tells the writer that his people were chased where long ago in Chapter 11?

4. In Chapter 15, the writer decides to book a flight where?

5. When does the receptionist wake up the writer in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What events take place when the protagonist awakens in Chapter 14?

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

7. What movie release does the protagonist read about in Chapter 8? What are his feelings about the film?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the settings of Haneda, Tokyo and Akasaka in the narrative. What leads the writer to each of these locales?

Essay Topic 2

Define and identify the setting of the novel and the novel's protagonist. In what country and time period is the novel set?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss objective in the reading. What does the protagonist want? How does he go about achieving his goals? How do these objectives change?

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