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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Kitchen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps Mikage from thinking of her loneliness at night?
(a) The hum of the refrigerator.
(b) The drip of the leaky faucet.
(c) The crunching of the ice maker.
(d) The breeze from the kitchen window.

2. Who seems most distraught about the death?
(a) Mikage.
(b) Eriko.
(c) Yuichi.
(d) Satsuki.

3. What is Mikage stunned by at the Tanabe apartment?
(a) Eriko's job.
(b) The apartment's view.
(c) Eriko's beauty.
(d) The cleanliness of the kitchen.

4. Who slaps Yuichi?
(a) Mikage's ex-boyfriend.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) Mikage.
(d) Eriko.

5. What is there plenty more of in Mikage's life?
(a) Kitchens.
(b) Boys.
(c) Grandmothers.
(d) Ingredients.

Short Answer Questions

1. What challenges does the Tanabe face in helping one another?

2. What does Banana Yoshimoto use as a catalyst for love?

3. Where is Mikage when she starts crying?

4. What does Yuichi want Mikage to make using the item he brings home?

5. How does Yuichi know Mikage?

(see the answer key)

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