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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Mikage hide to cry?

3. How does Yuichi know Mikage?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mikage agree to travel to the Izu Peninsula?

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

3. What is it that Satsuki must not do on the bridge during the event? Why?

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

5. Why does Hiiragi wear the women's uniform?

6. Describe Mikage's encounter with Chika.

7. How is sexual ambiguity explored in the first chapter?

8. What stuns Mikage about Eriko?

9. At what point is Mikage at peace for the first time since her grandmother's death? Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the climax of each chapter. What tone does the author write the climax in? What does the climax symbolize or foreshadow for the future of the characters?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the story of Satsuki and the story of Mikage. How are the two characters similar? How are they different? How are the people in their lives similar and different? What about the events they face?

Essay Topic 3

In all three chapters, there are eccentric secondary characters. How are these characters added to accelerate the events in the novel? How is sexual ambiguity explored using these characters? Why is this significant?

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