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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. Who is the director of the films that Hoshino watches back to back?
(a) Claude Chabrol.
(b) Alain Resnais.
(c) Jean-Luc Godard.
(d) Francois Truffaut.

2. From where did Hoshino steal the entrance stone?
(a) From a playground.
(b) From a cemetery.
(c) From a religious shrine.
(d) From a river.

3. Why does Kafka think his mother abandoned him?
(a) Because she was not his real mother.
(b) Because she was afraid of loving him.
(c) Because she hated him.
(d) Because his father demanded it.

4. Whose spirit does Mrs. Saeki think is living inside Kafka's body?
(a) Her dead lover's.
(b) She thinks Kafka has an empty soul.
(c) Franz Kafka's.
(d) Kafka's father's.

5. What does Kafka bring with him into the woods in case he should decide to kill himself?
(a) A gun.
(b) A knife.
(c) A handful of arsenic.
(d) A noose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What relationship does Kafka think he has with Mrs. Saeki?

2. What dream does Kafka have about Sakura when he is lost in the woods?

3. Which of the following characters encounters Johnny Walker while walking through the woods?

4. What does the word "Kafka" translate to from Czech?

5. What is the first thing Nakata requests after waking from his nap?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the two soldiers that went for a walk in the woods surrounding Oshima's cabin?

2. How does Hoshino care for Nakata after he dies?

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

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

5. How does Mrs. Saeki respond when Nakata bursts into her office demanding to talk about the entrance stone?

6. What is the origin of Kafka's name?

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

8. What happens with Mrs. Saeki sleepwalks into Kafka's bedroom?

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

10. What happens when Crow encounters Johnny Walker in the enchanted woods?

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