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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 Gatekeeper use to pierce the narrator's eyes in Chapter 4?
2. Where does the woman tell the narrator that he'll find her grandfather's lab?
3. What does the narrator tell the librarian to comfort her at the end of Chapter 18?
4. What do Junior and Big Boy drink while visiting the narrator?
5. When the chubby girl and the narrator reach the lab, what does the chubby girl realize?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator realize in Chapter 17 about Junior's reference to a "time bomb"?
2. Why does the Professor say in Chapter 25 that he gave the narrator the data to shuffle with the terminal program?
3. Which unusual things have you noticed about the Town as described in Chapter 4?
4. What do you know about the narrator's job based on your reading of Chapter 3?
5. Describe the procedure the narrator goes through to prepare for shuffling.
6. Explain why the Colonel brings up the Librarian in Chapter 16 and what he tells the narrator in regards to her?
7. What information does the chubby girl in pink get from reading her grandfather's notebook in Chapter 19?
8. What do you know about the Wall surrounding the Town based on your readings in Chapter 10?
9. Explain where the narrator is at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what he spends his time doing.
10. What does the Gatekeeper have to say about the fact that the narrator got lost in the Woods and fell ill?
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
Explain how "shuffling" is done and the significance of this process for the novel's exploration of consciousness.
Essay Topic 3
Write a detailed characterization of Murakami's use of literary and musical references, describing his choice of usage and explaining how these choices add to the development of the characters.
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