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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. Where does the writer have breakfast in Chapter 14?
2. Whom does Yuki mention which chills the writer in Chapter 19?
3. What literary style does the narrator describe as rhetoric for rhetoric's sake in Chapter 17?
4. In describing Ryoichi Gotanda, the writer comments that he never understood how someone could be so what?
5. Where do the writer and photographer arrive in the beginning of Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. What favor does the hotel receptionist ask of the protagonist in Chapter 15? What is his response?
2. When did the protagonist re-enter society after his depression, as described in Chapter 2?
3. How does the hotel receptionist describe her experience on the sixteenth floor in Chapter 7?
4. How does Yuki describe her relationship with her parents in Chapter 16?
5. What movie release does the protagonist read about in Chapter 8? What are his feelings about the film?
6. How does the protagonist feel when he returns to his hotel room in Chapter 12? When does he sleep and awaken?
7. What thoughts consume the protagonist in Chapter 13? Why?
8. What does the protagonist discover at the library in Chapter 7?
9. On what assignment does the protagonist go in Chapter 2? How does he describe his job?
10. What events take place when the protagonist awakens in Chapter 14?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the character of Ryoichi Gotanda in the narrative. What feelings does the protagonist have about his former classmate?
Essay Topic 2
Analyze and discuss the author's style and use of suspense and foreboding in the narrative. What builds up to the presence of the Sheep Man?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the setting of Hawaii and discuss the new information learned from Miss Yumiyoshi in Chapters 27 and 28. How does this information affect the protagonist's objectives?
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