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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is there plenty more of in Mikage's life?

2. What is the name of Mikage's ex-boyfriend?

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

4. What is Mikage stunned by at the Tanabe apartment?

5. What emotion do Yuichi and Mikage share in the first chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the process in which Yuji becomes Eriko.

2. Describe the relationship that Hitoshi and Satsuki shared before Hitoshi's death?

3. Why does Mikage decide she wants to move out? Why doesn't she?

4. Describe Eriko's funeral.

5. Describe the apparition that Satsuki sees on the bridge.

6. What tone does the author use in Part Three of the book? How does the tone used in Part Three compare to the tones in the previous parts?

7. Why doesn't Yuichi tell Mikage that Eriko dies sooner?

8. What is Mikage's reaction to hearing of Eriko's death?

9. What do the bridge and river represent in this story?

10. How does Mikage know Yuichi before they become housemates?

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