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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the most major theme in the first chapter?
(a) Death.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Spite.

2. Mikage comes across several kitchens in the first chapter. What is each kitchen representative of?
(a) Each stage in Mikage's life.
(b) The people Mikage meets.
(c) The houses that Mikage live in.
(d) The deaths that Mikage deals with.

3. What is a kitchen symbolic of in the first chapter?
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Selflessness.

4. What is the one constant in Mikage's life?
(a) Eriko.
(b) Yuichi.
(c) Cooking.
(d) The kitchen.

5. Who are Mikage's remaining relatives?
(a) She has none.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her cousin and her aunt.
(d) Her aunt and uncle.

6. What does Yuichi want Mikage to make using the item he brings home?
(a) Short stories.
(b) Bookshelves.
(c) Change of address cards.
(d) Dinner.

7. What beverage is Mikage drinking in her dream?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Water.
(c) Warm milk.
(d) Tea.

8. Where are Mikage's parents?
(a) In a nursing home.
(b) Dead.
(c) In America.
(d) On vacation.

9. What does Yuichi bring home from work for Mikage to use?
(a) A new blender.
(b) A typewriter.
(c) A word processor.
(d) A television.

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

11. What does Eriko bring home for Mikage?
(a) A word processor.
(b) A juicer.
(c) A typewriter.
(d) Books.

12. What does Yuichi want when he wakes up after Mikage has her dream?
(a) Ramen.
(b) Cucumber salad.
(c) Tea.
(d) Water.

13. Which scene is the most pivotal in the first chapter?
(a) Mikage arriving at the Tanabe home.
(b) Eriko's transformation.
(c) Yuichi getting slapped.
(d) Mikage riding on the bus.

14. What is the name of Yuichi's mother?
(a) Satsuki.
(b) Yoshimoto.
(c) Eriko.
(d) Erika.

15. What motif does the glass have that Eriko gives to Mikage?
(a) Apple.
(b) Grape.
(c) Banana.
(d) Strawberry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which relative of Mikage's dies recently?

2. Where does Yuichi want to go in Mikage's dream?

3. What does Mikage's dream foreshadow?

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

5. What does the Tanabe family bring to Mikage's life?

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