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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 type of store does Oshima's brother own?
(a) A tuxedo shop.
(b) A surf shop.
(c) A pet shop.
(d) A cake shop.

2. When Mrs. Saeki rests her hand on Nakata's chest, what rushes into him?
(a) Blood.
(b) Love.
(c) Light.
(d) Memories.

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

4. After Nakata dies, who inherits his ability to understand animals?
(a) The ability is lost forever.
(b) Hoshino.
(c) Kafka.
(d) Oshima.

5. What type of people did Mrs. Saeki write a book about?
(a) People who had been struck by lightning.
(b) People who had died and come back to life.
(c) People who had unusual animals as pets.
(d) People who had been abandoned as children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Saeki think is the boy from the painting in the library?

2. Who is asked to kill evil before it can escape through the entrance stone?

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

4. Which of the following characters lies about seeing Kafka in order to protect him from the searching police?

5. What is the name of the philosopher that the prostitute recites, that Hoshino meets?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How do Nakata and Hoshino know that the entrance stone is working?

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

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

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

8. What does Kafka decide to do with his life after emerging from Limbo?

9. How does Mrs. Saeki convince Kafka to leave the world of the deserted village and go back where he belongs?

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

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