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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 happens to the narrator when he is finished playing the music?
2. Why does the Librarian say the Dreamreader can't free her mind?
3. What does the narrator compare his world to while climbing through the escape route in Chapter 29?
4. At the end of the book, why does the narrator say he has to stay?
5. What does the Colonel give the narrator to help in walking through the snow?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator whistling "I Go to Pieces" in Chapter 29 relate to the overall storyline?
2. Describe the significance of the music in Chapter 36.
3. What does the narrator say he plans to do with the Librarian's mind once he has read it?
4. How does the narrator's shadow say he developed his plan of escape in Chapter 38?
5. Explain the parallels between the video game the narrator plays at the beginning of Chapter 35 and his life.
6. Explain what the Professor says is a way out of the situation the narrator finds himself in in Chapter 27 and why it would work.
7. Explain the beasts' feeding habits as observed in Chapter 26.
8. Describe the scene when the narrator first enters the laundromat.
9. Explain the significance of the song "Danny Boy" for the narrator's life.
10. What does the narrator do after arriving in his apartment in Chapter 31?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how the Dreamreader finds out that the Librarian still has traces of mind and the significance this has for his own life.
Essay Topic 2
Using the death of the beasts, the death of shadows and the prospect of the Tokyo narrator's own death as examples, explain how Murakami presents the theme of mortality in the novel.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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