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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. When the receptionist visits the writer in Chapter 12, he keeps mentioning what creature?

2. In Chapter 8, the writer calls his former business partner where?

3. How many times has the protagonist been divorced in the novel?

4. What literary style does the narrator describe as rhetoric for rhetoric's sake in Chapter 17?

5. Whom does Yuki mention which chills the writer in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss the theme of abandonment in the novel. How does this theme apply to both the narrator and to Yuki?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Dick in the narrative and the unique relationship Yuki shares with her mother. How does the protagonist feel about Amé's absence from Yuki's life?

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