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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. Why does the girl say they can't swim to the top of the tower?
2. What does the chubby girl say her grandfather can do for the narrator in regards to his wound?
3. What does the narrator find himself longing for underground?
4. Why does the chubby girl say she wears pink?
5. Why does the Colonel say the narrator's love for the Librarian may not be prudent?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why the Colonel brings up the Librarian in Chapter 16 and what he tells the narrator in regards to her?
2. Why does the chubby girl think her grandfather's lab hasn't been broken into in Chapter 21?
3. Which unusual things have you noticed about the Town as described in Chapter 4?
4. What does the narrator realize in Chapter 17 about Junior's reference to a "time bomb"?
5. Explain how the relationship between the narrator and the young woman develops in Chapter 5.
6. What do you know about the narrator's job based on your reading of Chapter 3?
7. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the beasts' death in Chapter 20?
8. What does the Colonel tell the narrator about the Woods and the Woodspeople in Chapter 14?
9. Give a brief description of the beasts introduced in Chapter 2.
10. What does the narrator's conversation with the Librarian about where he came from tell the reader about the nature of the Town?
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 what the narrator refers to in Chapter 35 as "despair", "disillusionment" and "hell" and explain why he says he's unable to create a better life for himself.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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