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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Keiko experience a few days before her death?
(a) A deep sadness.
(b) A sense of certainty that Isobe will be all right.
(c) A revelation about her daughter.
(d) An out-of-body experience.

2. What does Naruse Mitsuko think about after Isobe leaves the informational meeting?
(a) A boy she tormented.
(b) Whether she would reincarnate or not.
(c) Where Keiko is now.
(d) Her lack of beliefs in a god.

3. Who is Moïra?
(a) Tsu's sister.
(b) A literary character.
(c) Tsu's favorite teacher.
(d) Mitsuko's best friend.

4. What does Kiguchi ask the tour guide about?
(a) About funerals for veterans.
(b) About the proper way to address a widow in Nepal.
(c) About a holy man who is almost 300 years old.
(d) About souls in a holding area in the Himalayas.

5. What does Keiko dream that Isobe does?
(a) Calls and talks to his daughter.
(b) Marries another woman.
(c) Flies away with her.
(d) Leaves the stove on.

Short Answer Questions

1. What group of people does Gaston tell Tsukada about after Tsukada make a confession to Gaston?

2. What is the Kultur Heim?

3. Why does Tsu drink until he throws up?

4. What does Isobe write about his wife?

5. Where did Kiguchi fight during the war?

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