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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had Dr. Tokai acquired his medical practice?
(a) He had purchased it himself.
(b) He had begun as an apprentice and had worked his way up to owner.
(c) He had inherited it from his father.
(d) He had inherited it from his grandfather.

2. When Tanimura goes away to college, he remarks that everything in his life until then has been what?
(a) Embarrassing.
(b) Depressing.
(c) Inane.
(d) Boring.

3. What fraction of the women who had broken up with Dr. Tokai in order to marry another man had eventually gotten back in touch with Dr. Tokai?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 2/3.

4. In college, Tanimura had worked in what type of establishment with Kitaru?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A coffee shop.
(d) A bar.

5. What objects had been on Habara's bedside table upon his arrival at the house north of Tokyo?
(a) X-rays.
(b) Bottles of liquor.
(c) Coins.
(d) Condoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "An Independent Organ" describe the level of success enjoyed by Dr. Tokai's medical practice?

2. 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?

3. How many years older than Habara is Scheherazade?

4. What object does Dr. Tokai instruct to be given to the narrator upon Dr. Tokai's death?

5. How long does Tanimura say it had taken him to master the standard Tokyo dialect?

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