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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Haruki Murakami uses a simile to indicate Kafuku's level of trust in Oba, what metal does he reference?
(a) Silver.
(b) Tin.
(c) Copper.
(d) Gold.

2. What is the name of the man who routinely services Kafuku's car?
(a) Una.
(b) Watanabe.
(c) Oba.
(d) Samsa.

3. What other fact is included alongside the narrator's statement that Kitaru had failed his college entrance exams twice?
(a) Kitaru had been ill for a long period of time before exams.
(b) Kitaru had never wanted to attend college.
(c) Kitaru had never studied for the exams.
(d) Kitaru had hired an ineffective tutor.

4. From what location does Tanimura hail?
(a) Kansai.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Okinawa.
(d) Hanshin.

5. When Kitaru describes feelings as if he is splitting himself in two, he names what two emotions?
(a) Elation and apprehension.
(b) Curiosity and depression.
(c) Sadness and excitement.
(d) Worry and relief.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often does Kafuku draw "distinctions between men and women in his daily life" (4)?

2. What action does Misaki Watari take that makes Kafuku think that the action must be one that everyone in Junitakicho undertakes?

3. What does Kafuku tell Misaki Watari after stating that he has wanted to tell her for a while?

4. In college, Tanimura had worked in what type of establishment with Kitaru?

5. Kafuku thinks upon meeting his new driver that there is something what "about her face" (7)?

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