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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Colonel Sanders do for a living?
(a) He is a con man.
(b) He is a pimp.
(c) He is a drug dealer.
(d) He is a hit man.

2. Where does Oshima find a copy of Mrs. Saeki's hit song on vinyl?
(a) In the library's collection.
(b) On the Internet.
(c) In a garbage dump.
(d) In his mother's collection.

3. Which of the following characters encounters Johnny Walker while walking through the woods?
(a) Crow.
(b) Oshima.
(c) Kafka.
(d) Hoshino.

4. How was Mrs. Saeki punished for opening the entrance stone?
(a) With the inability to love.
(b) With a song that would never leave her head.
(c) With no memory of her past.
(d) With everlasting life.

5. What does the word "Kafka" translate to from Czech?
(a) Black.
(b) Soul.
(c) Bird.
(d) Crow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What classical musician is the topic of conversation at the coffee shop that Hoshino frequents?

2. How does Hoshino carry the entrance stone back to his hotel room?

3. What does Mrs. Saeki claim defines Kafka even though he is very young?

4. What weather storms into the city after Hoshino steals the entrance stone?

5. Which of the following groups of people disappeared in the woods near Oshima's cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Saeki ask Nakata to do with her memoirs?

2. How does evil try to escape Limbo?

3. Why does Colonel Sanders bring Hoshino to the religious shrine?

4. How does Mrs. Saeki react when Kafka confronts her about the possibility that she is his mother?

5. What book did Mrs.Saeki write after collecting interviews?

6. Why does Oshima wake Kafka in the middle of the night with a frantic phone call?

7. What happens to Nakata when Mrs. Saeki rests her hands against his chest?

8. What conversation does Hoshino get into with the elderly coffee shop owner the day that the entrance stone is flipped?

9. How does Colonel Sanders explain his physical form to Hoshino?

10. What arrangements does Colonel Sanders make for Nakata and Hoshino while the police are on their manhunt?

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