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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Igasaki tell Natsuki about the "lessons" he is giving her over the summer?
(a) She can tell her parents about them.
(b) She needs to pay him for them.
(c) She can tell her friends about them.
(d) They have to be repeated many times.

2. What city does Natsuki work in?
(a) Chibia.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Marachibo.
(d) Las Vegas.

3. What does Yuu ask Natsuki to look for with him?
(a) His shoes.
(b) His father.
(c) His spaceship from his home planet.
(d) His brother.

4. What creatures were once allowed to grow in the mountain house?
(a) Earthworms.
(b) Kittens.
(c) Silkworms.
(d) Butterflies.

5. What is Natsuki's last name?
(a) Henriki.
(b) Sasamoto.
(c) Miki.
(d) Tuhiro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuu tell Natsuki about the relationship between children and adults?

2. Where does Natsuki's husband work?

3. Which relatives of Natsuki's own the mountain house?

4. What does Mr. Igasaki pull out of the trash that belongs to Natsuki?

5. What is a traditional action everyone does when they first come to the mountain house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the adults always ask the children to do at the mountain house when they first arrive which is part of tradition?

2. What does Mr. Igasaki make Natsuki do early in Part II that is humiliating?

3. What vow do Yuu and Natsuki make to each other?

4. Which relative is always kind to the children in Natsuki's family?

5. What is really unusual about Natsuki's and Tomoya's marriage?

6. What does Yuu tell Natsuki he believes about himself that makes him special?

7. Why do Natsuki and her family leave Akishina early in Part I?

8. What plan does Natsuki make to try to escape her misery?

9. Why do all the adults in Natsuki's family get so angry and upset with her and Yuu?

10. In Part II, why does the family decide not to go to Akishina for Obon?

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