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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. Where had Mike lived with his parents before they moved to America?
(a) Mihawi.
(b) Osaka.
(c) Setagaya.
(d) Tokyo.

2. What kind of food did Eiju cook for Mike when he was a child?
(a) Only desserts.
(b) The different ethnic foods he learned to cook at his various restaurant jobs.
(c) American food like pizza and hamburgers.
(d) Japanese food.

3. What does Eiju ask Mike to do when they visit the shrine together?
(a) Ring the bell for him.
(b) Carry him up the stairs.
(c) Sing.
(d) Paint a picture.

4. Who reminds Mike to take care of himself as well as his father?
(a) Hana.
(b) Sana.
(c) Natsue.
(d) Takeshi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eiju call Mike that makes him upset?

2. What does Eiju scribble in his notebook that Mike finds in his apartment?

3. What is Kunihiko angry with Mike about?

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

5. What does Eiju ask Mike to do when he dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mike eventually realize Mary and Harold, his neighbors, have in mind for him?

2. Why is Mike angry at his mother for the circumstances surrounding her telling him that Eiju is dying?

3. Who does Mike become somewhat romantically involved with in Osaka and how does this happen?

4. What do Sora an Mike talk about when Mike helps his father get the bar's liquor order?

5. What does Kunihiko start doing as Eiju gets sicker?

6. What makes Mike upset about how Eiju manages his illness?

7. What happens to Eiju as he gets sicker and sicker?

8. Why is Ryutaro so loyal to Eiju?

9. Why does Mike begin helping Eiju run the bar?

10. What does Mike say to Ben shortly before he leaves for Osaka that he knows he should not have said?

(see the answer keys)

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