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

2. Which customers of Eiju's are coworkers at an advertising agency?
(a) Hana and Mieko.
(b) Raka and Hana.
(c) Raka and Kunihko.
(d) Tan and Ebbie.

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

4. What does Mike tell the patrons at Eiju's that his relationship with Eiju is?
(a) Like a good friend.
(b) Like a brother.
(c) Like a cousin.
(d) Like a nephew.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mary's and Harold's daughter?

2. Who does Tan live with?

3. Which of the following is one of Eiju's favorite smells?

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

5. What does Eiju tell Mike when Mike reminds him of the doctor's orders not to smoke?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eiju generally treat Mike when Mike first shows up in Osaka?

2. What is unique about Mike's neighborhood in Texas?

3. How does Eiju feel about tourists in his bar?

4. What does Eiju say when Mike tells him he is gay in Part III?

5. Why is Ryutaro so loyal to Eiju?

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

7. What does Eiju tell Mike when Mike asks how he first met Mitsuko?

8. What surprises Mike about the name of Eiju's bar?

9. What seems to surprise Ben about Mike's reaction to his telling Mike he is HIV positive?

10. What does Mike think about Eiju's approach to telling others about his terminal illness?

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