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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eiju ask Mike to do when he dies?
(a) To move back to America immediately.
(b) To sell the bar.
(c) To marry Ben.
(d) Not to wait to tell Mitsuko.

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

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 is very selfish.
(c) Ben needs to get a better job.
(d) No one will ever love Ben.

4. What do Tan and Mike do after leaving the diner the first time they eat together?
(a) Go for a coffee.
(b) Walk around in loops.
(c) Go back to Eiju's apartment.
(d) Go to the airport.

5. Who does Eiju say he will leave the bar to if Mike does not want it?
(a) Kunihiko.
(b) Hana.
(c) Natsue.
(d) Taro.

6. Who is the man who Eiju gets his liquor from?
(a) Morimoto.
(b) Hikachi.
(c) Morami.
(d) Hikaru.

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

8. Which couple are regulars at Eiju's bar?
(a) Tan and Natsue.
(b) Natsue and Hana.
(c) Hayato and Natsue.
(d) Hayato and Kunihiko.

9. What does Mike realize that Eiju shows to Kunihiko in how Eiju treats Kunihiko?
(a) Anger.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Endearment.
(d) Ridicule.

10. Who does Mike meet in Eiju's bar whom he is romantically interested in?
(a) Hana.
(b) Sana.
(c) Tan.
(d) Natsue.

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mike's mother do with him routinely right before she left America for Japan?

2. What does Eiju do one night at the bar that makes Mike incredulous and angry?

3. Which of Eiju's patrons tells Mike she is happy he is there for Eiju?

4. Who does Mike eventually partner with to do a pop-up restaurant?

5. Who does Mike ask for directions to his father's apartment in Osaka?

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