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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 Lydia's text to Ben in Chapter 16 say?
(a) Lydia asks Ben to check on their mother.
(b) Lydia uses "LMAO" and expresses surprise that Ben went to see their father.
(c) Lydia asks Ben to ask Mike to do her a favor.
(d) Lydia asks Ben to come over to her apartment right away.

2. What food does Mitsuko ask Ben about in Chapter 5?
(a) Special eggs.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) Natto.
(d) Squid.

3. What does Ben see on Mike's phone that bothers him?
(a) A picture of another man's penis.
(b) Texts from another man.
(c) A dating profile that Mike starred.
(d) Messages from Mike's father.

4. What does Mike ask Ben to do for him in Chapter 32?
(a) Pick him up at the airport when he returns.
(b) Call Mike's siblings to tell them about Eiju's death.
(c) Make dinner for him.
(d) Call Mitsuko.

5. What major struggle does Ben's father deal with?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Fighting cancer.
(d) Multiple Sclerosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the reader find out Ben is HIV positive?

2. Why does Ben leave Ximena's wedding reception early?

3. What did Mike always bring Ben from work?

4. Why is Mike taking his trip in Chapter 1?

5. Why is Mitsuko crying in Chapter 32?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one of Ben's father's most serious problems?

2. How does Ben feel about his mother's new husband and family?

3. Where does Ben take some of the food that he and Mitsuko are cooking in Chapter 22?

4. What does Mitsuko tell Ben a story is like when he asks her to tell him a story about Mike?

5. In Chapter 25, how does Ben react when his mother takes him to her new house for the first time?

6. Why is Mike leaving for Osaka, Japan, in Chapter 1?

7. What is Mike's reaction when Ben asks him once if he wants kids?

8. In Chapter 15, what does Ben's father ask him that makes Ben realize how lonely his father is?

9. What does Ben's father say about his sexuality in Chapter 19 that is entirely offensive?

10. Why does Ben think his father could be worse than he thought when he first sees his father in Part II?

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