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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dose Natsuki offer to do to the person who has chased Tomoya back to Akishina?
(a) Pray for him.
(b) Pay him.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Drive him home.

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

3. What does Natsuki think Yuu thinks of her?
(a) He despises her.
(b) He is worried about her.
(c) He is angry with her.
(d) He loves her.

4. What is a doma?
(a) A palace.
(b) A church.
(c) A small shed.
(d) A room with a bare earth floor.

5. What happens to Natsuki after she goes to Mr. Igasaki's house in Part III?
(a) She gets very sick with fever.
(b) She tries to run away.
(c) She begins to eat again.
(d) She tries to kill herself.

6. What does Natsuki's mother-in-law tell Tomoya he can do because all men do it?
(a) Get a new job.
(b) Buy another house.
(c) Go to church.
(d) Have affairs.

7. What does Natsuki keep in the tin box?
(a) Her food.
(b) Her diary.
(c) Piyyut, the marriage pledge, and the wire ring.
(d) Her shoes.

8. What does Natsuki's university friend that she confides in about her abuse do that infuriates Natsuki?
(a) Asks her to see a counselor.
(b) Writes about it.
(c) Tries to fix her up with a boy.
(d) Tells others.

9. Who is the first friend Natsuki really tells about her sexual abuse at the hands of Mr. Igasaki?
(a) Hiro.
(b) Ti.
(c) Riki.
(d) Kanae.

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

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

12. How does Teruyoshi describe the village around the mountain house?
(a) Commercial.
(b) More like a farm than anything else.
(c) Critically depopulated.
(d) Very populous.

13. Why does Yuu say it is not a good idea to stay in the house in winter?
(a) The aliens come back in winter.
(b) The snow gets too deep.
(c) The house gets haunted then.
(d) The river freezes over.

14. Where does Tomoya say he wants to sleep in Akishina?
(a) The silkworm room.
(b) The tatami room.
(c) The dumo.
(d) The riki room.

15. Why does Tomoya leave the mountain house in Part IV?
(a) To visit his mother.
(b) To go back to town and try to commit and taboo.
(c) To seek medical treatment.
(d) To get food.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who visits Akishina the morning Tomoya leaves on his mission?

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

4. What does Natsuki's mother-in-law say about her having a baby?

5. What does Natsuki think of society as a system for?

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