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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Mike ask for directions to his father's apartment in Osaka?
(a) A taxi driver.
(b) A bookshop owner and neighbor of Eiju's.
(c) A newspaper stand salesman.
(d) A waiter.

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

4. Where does Tan live with his mother?
(a) Miraki.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Doyama.
(d) Nagasaki.

5. What kind of cancer does Eiju have?
(a) Liver.
(b) Bone.
(c) Lung.
(d) Pancreatic.

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

7. How did Ben and Mike meet?
(a) At a party.
(b) At the doctor's office.
(c) At a restaurant.
(d) At a friend's wedding.

8. How does Mike feel the first night Ben sleeps in his bed after moving in?
(a) He thinks he might want to marry Ben.
(b) All of a sudden, he wants Ben to leave.
(c) He thinks Ben might hurt him.
(d) He thinks Ben does not want to be there.

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

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

11. What does Kunihiko bring back from a convenience store for some foreigners one night at the bar?
(a) Convenience store chicken.
(b) Special American beer.
(c) Milkshakes.
(d) Slurpees.

12. What does Mike learn after he returns from being with Tan overnight?
(a) Eiju is in the hospital.
(b) The bar has burned down.
(c) Ben called with an emergency.
(d) Eiju has died.

13. Who does Mike eventually partner with to do a pop-up restaurant?
(a) Rick.
(b) Tony.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Shepard.

14. What does Eiju do in Osaka?
(a) Runs a law firm.
(b) Runs a laundromat.
(c) Runs a detective agency.
(d) Runs a bar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ben born?

2. What does Mike realize that Eiju shows to Kunihiko in how Eiju treats Kunihiko?

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

4. Who is the man who Eiju gets his liquor from?

5. What do Tan and Mike do after leaving the diner the first time they eat together?

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