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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Mikage visit the day after she receives Eriko's gift?
(a) Grandma's grave.
(b) Yuichi's girlfriend.
(c) Her ex-boyfriend.
(d) The landlord.

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

4. Where does Yuichi work part-time?
(a) Flower shop.
(b) Shoe store.
(c) Inn.
(d) Book shop.

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

6. Why does Yuichi get slapped?
(a) For insulting Eriko.
(b) For being lazy.
(c) For quitting his job.
(d) For living with Mikage.

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

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

9. What does Mikage make for the Tanabe family?
(a) Cucumber salad and rice with eggs.
(b) Carrot salad and noodles with eggs.
(c) Broccoli and rice with eggs.
(d) Chicken salad and rice.

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

11. What does Mikage fall in love with at the Tanabe apartment?
(a) Their kitchen.
(b) The view.
(c) Yuichi.
(d) The typewriter.

12. What is the name of Mikage's ex-boyfriend?
(a) Yoshimoto.
(b) Satsuki.
(c) Yuji.
(d) Sotaro.

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

14. What place in the world does Mikage like best?
(a) The Tanabe's home.
(b) The bridge.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) Grandma's bedroom.

15. What is the one place Mikage finds peace?
(a) The park.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The bookstore.
(d) The bathroom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuichi bring home from work for Mikage to use?

2. Which relative of Mikage's dies recently?

3. What keeps Mikage from thinking of her loneliness at night?

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

5. Which character is sexually ambiguous?

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