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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shizuka seem to always suspect about Natsuki?
(a) Natsuki steals from her.
(b) Natsuki is jealous of her.
(c) Natsuki wants a new job.
(d) Natsuki is pregnant.

2. Who does Natsuki tell about her sexual abuse while at university?
(a) Ti.
(b) Miho.
(c) Kanae.
(d) Hiro.

3. What is different about the river in Natsuki's eyes in Part III?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It is much small than she remembered.
(c) There are more fish in it.
(d) It is much bigger than she remembered.

4. How are Mr. Igasaki's parents treated now that so many years have passed?
(a) As a nuisance.
(b) As saints.
(c) As ghosts.
(d) As figures of sympathy.

5. Who actually follows Tomoya back from town?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

6. Why does Natsuki believe her ear is "broken"?
(a) Yuu told her.
(b) She had a bad ear infection.
(c) It was the ear she heard Mr. Igasaki's voice from the phone in.
(d) Piyyut told her.

7. What does Natsuki's mother-in-law say about her having a baby?
(a) She will not be able to have a baby now.
(b) She is getting old to have a baby for the first time.
(c) She is too young to have a baby.
(d) She is not suitable to be a parent.

8. What outrageous act does Tomoya say he wants to engage in to "liberate himself from the brainwashing"?
(a) Cannibalism.
(b) Self-mutilation.
(c) Prayer.
(d) Incest.

9. What does Yota say is looking very worn down?
(a) The kitchen counter.
(b) The tatami mat in the altar room.
(c) The cabinetry.
(d) The silkworm hut.

10. Who is living at the house in Akishina in Part III?
(a) Yoto.
(b) Natsuki's father.
(c) Kise.
(d) Yuu.

11. What does Yuu tell Natsuki is his impression of her?
(a) She is too much under her parents' thumb.
(b) She is a wonderful adult.
(c) She probably desperately wants a baby.
(d) She is frozen in time and in childhood.

12. Who does Kise tell Natsuki are in the news again?
(a) Hiro.
(b) Uncle Teryoshi.
(c) Mr. Igasaki's parents.
(d) Sinzua.

13. Where does Natsuki's husband desperately yearn to go?
(a) Akishina.
(b) Florence.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Marichaibo.

14. What does Natsuki do with her clothes from the night Mr. Igasaki dies?
(a) Puts them in her closet.
(b) Throws them in her school incinerator.
(c) Gives them away to charity.
(d) Buries them.

15. Where does Yota live?
(a) Frida.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Chibia.
(d) Ueda.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tomoya seem in Akishina?

2. What does Natsuki use to keep herself warm at the mountain house?

3. Who begins to get worried that Natsuki and Tomoya have extended their stay in Akishina?

4. What can Natsuki's husband not stand the sight of?

5. What is the term Natsuki's family uses for when the ground around a grave collapses?

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