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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who comes to Akishina to "spy" on Natsuki and Tomoya?
(a) Natsuki's mother.
(b) Tomoya's brother.
(c) Yuu's sister.
(d) Kise.

4. What did Natsuki sometimes do at her grandparents' graves?
(a) Make offerings.
(b) Pray.
(c) She never went to the graves.
(d) Sing.

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

6. How does Natsuki's cousin treat her at first when he visits the mountain house in Part IV?
(a) He is very angry at her.
(b) Indifferently.
(c) Warmly.
(d) Coldly.

7. What does Tomoya say abandoned places always have?
(a) Cats.
(b) Small children.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Wind.

8. What does Natsuki think of society as a system for?
(a) Making clothes.
(b) Making parents happy.
(c) Feeding animals.
(d) Falling in love.

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

10. How does Yuu's mother die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Suicide.

11. What can Natsuki's husband not stand the sight of?
(a) Lint.
(b) Food.
(c) Female flesh.
(d) Hair.

12. What is Natsuki's niece's name?
(a) Riki.
(b) Hana.
(c) Raba.
(d) Yei.

13. What happens to Tomoya on the drive up the mountain?
(a) He wants to stop for a swim.
(b) He wants to drive.
(c) He starts speaking in another language.
(d) He feels ill.

14. Who begins to get worried that Natsuki and Tomoya have extended their stay in Akishina?
(a) Yuu's mother.
(b) Natsuki's mother.
(c) Riki's mother.
(d) Tomoya's mother.

15. What is the "magic word" Piyyut tells Natsuki to say to finish killing the wicked witch?
(a) Fidelio.
(b) Popinpobopia.
(c) Egads.
(d) Revelio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first friend Natsuki really tells about her sexual abuse at the hands of Mr. Igasaki?

2. What does Natsuki find out that Tomoya has told his own family about their marriage?

3. Why does Yuu say Natsuki cannot go to town with him and Yota?

4. What is one of Natsuki's husband's main worries when he is fired?

5. How are Mr. Igasaki's parents treated now that so many years have passed?

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