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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What challenges does the Tanabe face in helping one another?
(a) They have trouble communicating.
(b) They are constantly working.
(c) Their eccentricities.
(d) They fear one another.

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

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

4. What does Banana Yoshimoto use as a catalyst for love?
(a) Homelessness.
(b) Security.
(c) Death.
(d) Loneliness.

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

6. What does Mikage see that makes her cry?
(a) Yuichi and his girlfriend.
(b) Her ex-boyfriend and another girl.
(c) A child with their grandmother.
(d) Eriko walking alone.

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

8. What does Mikage do when she wakes up from her dream?
(a) Wakes Yuichi.
(b) Drinks water.
(c) Cries.
(d) Drinks tea.

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

10. Which character is sexually ambiguous?
(a) Eriko.
(b) Sotaro.
(c) Mikage.
(d) Yuichi.

11. How does Yuichi know Mikage?
(a) He meets her at church.
(b) They work together.
(c) They go to school together.
(d) He helps carry her grandmother's stuff home.

12. What is the first truly fun moment for Mikage since she experiences family loss?
(a) Talking to Eriko.
(b) The kitchen dream.
(c) Cooking for Yuichi.
(d) Talking to Sotaro.

13. What is Eriko contemplating the first morning after Mikage moves in in the kitchen?
(a) Whether she goes to school or not.
(b) Whether or not to order take-out.
(c) Whether or not to remodel.
(d) Whether or not to get plastic surgery again.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mikage comes across several kitchens in the first chapter. What is each kitchen representative of?

2. What month does Mikage decide to stop being lazy?

3. What do Yuichi and Mikage share at the end of Chapter One?

4. Who are Mikage's remaining relatives?

5. What is the name of Yuichi's mother?

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