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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. What does Eiju call Mike that makes him upset?
2. How does Mike describe the first few months living with Ben?
3. What does Eiju scribble in his notebook that Mike finds in his apartment?
4. What does Eiju say when Mike asks him how he met his mother?
5. What did Mike's mother do with him routinely right before she left America for Japan?
Short Essay Questions
1. What upsets Mike about Ben's attitude towards the neighbors?
2. What happens to Eiju as he gets sicker and sicker?
3. Why is Mike angry at his mother for the circumstances surrounding her telling him that Eiju is dying?
4. Who does Mike become somewhat romantically involved with in Osaka and how does this happen?
5. Why does Mike begin helping Eiju run the bar?
6. What does Mike say to Ben shortly before he leaves for Osaka that he knows he should not have said?
7. What do Sora an Mike talk about when Mike helps his father get the bar's liquor order?
8. What is unique about Mike's neighborhood in Texas?
9. What makes Mike upset about how Eiju manages his illness?
10. Why is Ryutaro so loyal to Eiju?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are some of the most significant challenges and problems in Ben's and Mike's relationship throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Why do you think Mike decides to go back to Japan and try to make a go of running Eiju's bar after Eiju's death? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think Ben eventually agrees to the awkward meeting between himself, Mike, and Omar towards the end of the novel? What it is about this meeting that seems to surprise all three young men? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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