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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Scheherazade and Kino".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What specific reason is given for Habara needing a support liaison who can bring him groceries and other items he requires?
(a) Because he will be killed if he emerges from the house.
(b) Because he has agoraphobia.
(c) Because he does not like the bright lights in grocery stores.
(d) Because he cannot go outside.

2. When Kino and his ex-wife meet once their divorce is finalized, what does Kino's wife say she has been wanting to tell Kino?
(a) That she wants to resume their relationship.
(b) That she is sorry for cheating on him.
(c) That she is engaged.
(d) That she is pregnant with Kino's child.

3. What baseball reference does Tanimura use to indicate how far he had gone sexually with his girlfriend before going to college and breaking up with her?
(a) Rounding third base.
(b) Home run.
(c) Sliding into second base.
(d) Rounding second base.

4. During one of her stories, Scheherazade declares that she had been what creature in a former life?
(a) A koala.
(b) A praying mantis.
(c) A lamprey eel.
(d) A snake.

5. The narrator describes truly happy families as occurring as frequently as what other phenomenon?
(a) Perfect games in backgammon.
(b) Finding a needle in a haystack.
(c) Living longer than one's spouse.
(d) Hat tricks in soccer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tanimura goes away to college, he remarks that everything in his life until then has been what?

2. Kitaru's ritual when he arrives home involves the singing of the song Yesterday and what other action?

3. What kind of doctor is Dr. Tokai?

4. What verb is used to describe the way in which Habara had come to the "provincial city north of Tokyo" (121) four months before the story's beginning?

5. When Kino first sees the bald man come into his establishment, he pegs him as a what?

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