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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 did the Professor take with him when he left the System?
2. How does the Professor explain the narrator's memory of the dam and the king's coronation?
3. Is the narrator going up or down in the elevator at the beginning of the story?
4. What does the librarian ask for in return for a favor at the library in Chapter 7?
5. What does the narrator believe after he's slammed into the rock slab at the beginning of Chapter 23?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Colonel and his relationship to the narrator.
2. Explain where the narrator is at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what he spends his time doing.
3. Why does the chubby girl think her grandfather's lab hasn't been broken into in Chapter 21?
4. What does Junior tell the narrator to tell the System about their visit and the wound? Why?
5. Explain how the relationship between the narrator and the young woman develops in Chapter 5.
6. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the beasts' death in Chapter 20?
7. Describe the process for reading dreams.
8. Explain why the Colonel brings up the Librarian in Chapter 16 and what he tells the narrator in regards to her?
9. Give a brief description of the beasts introduced in Chapter 2.
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
Giving specific details from the story, explain how Murakami leaves the novel somewhat open-ended and explain what you think might have happened to each of the narrators.
Essay Topic 2
Consider the first two chapters of the book. In the first chapter, the narrator is stuck in an elevator. In the second chapter, the beasts and the coming of autumn are described. Compare and contrast the tone of both of these chapters.
Essay Topic 3
Describe the video game the Tokyo narrator plays while waiting for his date with the librarian and draw parallels to his own situation. Describe the video game the Tokyo narrator plays while waiting for his date with the librarian and draw parallels to his own situation.
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