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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator notice about the girl in the car in front of them while on their way back to the Professor's lab?
2. What do Junior and Big Boy do to the narrator, saying they have no choice?
3. What did the narrator loose upon arriving in the Town?
4. What does the narrator use to call up the End of the World?
5. What does the narrator wish he could be, in thinking about the girl in the Skyline?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator imagine his retirement in Chapter 13?
2. What does the narrator realize in Chapter 17 about Junior's reference to a "time bomb"?
3. Explain why the Colonel brings up the Librarian in Chapter 16 and what he tells the narrator in regards to her?
4. Explain how the relationship between the narrator and the young woman develops in Chapter 5.
5. What does the Gatekeeper have to say about the fact that the narrator got lost in the Woods and fell ill?
6. Why does the chubby girl think her grandfather's lab hasn't been broken into in Chapter 21?
7. Describe the process for reading dreams.
8. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the beasts' death in Chapter 20?
9. What do you know about the Pool based on your readings in Chapter 12?
10. Explain what "The End of the World" is according to the Professor's explanation in Chapter 25.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the Town and explain how Murakami's characterization of this place relates to the overall theme of the mind.
Essay Topic 2
Describe the Tokyo narrator's escapist tendencies, giving several concrete examples.
Essay Topic 3
Explain what the Townspeople, the shadow and the Professor say about the beasts and use these varying viewpoints to explain the role unicorns play in the novel as a whole.
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