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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is one of Eiju's favorite things?

2. What does Taro tell Mike and Eiju after Eiju has to spend a few nights in the clinic?

3. Which customers of Eiju's are coworkers at an advertising agency?

4. Around what time does Eiju's bar get its first customers every night?

5. What does Eiju tell Kunihiko he has to pay for after Kunihiko breaks them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Mike realize his mother was taking him out for fancy dinners for a time?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Washington seems to leave the door open to the idea that Mike and Ben might someday get back together at the end of the novel, but for the immediate future, they are breaking up. Why do you think Washington leaves the future of Ben's and Mike's relationship ambiguous? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Ben pursues a relationship with Omar, and Mike pursues one with Tan? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does the reader find out that Benson is HIV positive, and why do you think Washington chose to let the reader know this information at this point in the book and in this manner? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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