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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 think people want to extend to everything?
2. What does the narrator say is "...all that is left..." at the end of the story?
3. What does the narrator tell the librarian about himself when she says she wants to know more about him?
4. Where is the shadow when the narrator comes to visit him at the beginning of Chapter 32?
5. Which instrument does the narrator eventually take with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the significance of the music in Chapter 36.
2. How does the Caretaker of the Power Station feel about the musical instruments?
3. What does the narrator tell the librarian about why he got divorced?
4. What does the narrator say he plans to do with the Librarian's mind once he has read it?
5. Describe how the narrator's shadow is living at the beginning of Chapter 32.
6. How does the narrator's shadow say he developed his plan of escape in Chapter 38?
7. What is "the encyclopedia wand"?
8. How does the narrator explain his decision in Chapter 40?
9. What does the narrator say in Chapter 37 about "...tuning in on the particulars of the world" and why is that important?
10. Explain what the narrator thinks about the stars as he is making his way through the underground escape route towards the end of Chapter 29.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain some of the main characteristics of existentialist literature and describe how Murakami's novel is similar.
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
Name some elements of the "archetypal journey" and explain how the "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" narrator's passage through the Tokyo underground was an archetypal journey.
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