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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What helps Mitsuko get her first job in America in Part III?
(a) The fact that she has a green thumb.
(b) The fact that she can cook.
(c) The fact that she has a legal background.
(d) The fact that she speaks Japanese.

2. What conversation does Mike have with Eiju just once?
(a) A conversation about alcoholism.
(b) A conversation about college.
(c) A conversation about hospice.
(d) A conversation about cooking.

3. What does Mike tell Ben one day during one of their worst fights, right before he leaves for Osaka?
(a) The world does not owe Ben anything.
(b) Ben needs to get a better job.
(c) No one will ever love Ben.
(d) Ben is very selfish.

4. What makes Mike angry about the way Mitsuko tells him Eiju is sick?
(a) Mitsuko told Mike with no sympathy or care.
(b) Mitsuko told Mike because Eiju told her to tell him.
(c) Mitsuko told Mike by accident.
(d) Mitsuko knew Eiju was sick for three weeks before telling Mike.

5. What does Mike decide to stuff into his duffel to take home from Eiju's apartment?
(a) Eiju's notebook.
(b) A figurine.
(c) A packet of seaweed.
(d) A kazoo of Eiju's.

6. How does Kunihiko know where everything is in Eiju's apartment kitchen?
(a) He says he has a sixth sense for kitchen setups.
(b) He says all Japanese people stock their kitchens the same way.
(c) He says he cooks there all the time.
(d) He says Eiju told him once.

7. What tragedy happened years earlier in the doctor's life?
(a) He lost both his parents in a car accident.
(b) His wife and daughter died in a car accident.
(c) He lost his leg in a car accident.
(d) He lost his brother in a plane crash.

8. What does Eiju scribble in his notebook that Mike finds in his apartment?
(a) Poems.
(b) Prayers.
(c) Notes to friends.
(d) Lists.

9. Who comes to have dinner regularly at Eiju's as Eiju enters the later stages of his illness?
(a) Tan.
(b) Takeshi.
(c) Kunihiko.
(d) Ben.

10. What kind of mat does Kunihiko sleep on in Eiju's apartment?
(a) An extra tatami mat.
(b) A hiram mat.
(c) A suko mat.
(d) A cot mat.

11. What does Ben tell Mike that all the men he has slept with have in common?
(a) They are all young.
(b) They are all hilarious.
(c) They are all well-educated.
(d) They are all short.

12. What game does Mike remember playing with Eiju as a child?
(a) Candyland.
(b) Badminton.
(c) A game when they made faces at each other.
(d) Chess.

13. Who does Tan live with?
(a) His best friend.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His brother.

14. Around what time does Eiju's bar get its first customers every night?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

15. What does Mike start sending Ben after he has been in Osaka a while?
(a) Pictures of his surroundings.
(b) Songs.
(c) Letters.
(d) Flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eiju do in Osaka?

2. What is the name of Eiju's bar?

3. What does Ben tell Mike in one of their early texts?

4. What does Mike routinely do with the older Black couple next door?

5. How does Mike feel the first night Ben sleeps in his bed after moving in?

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