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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "An Independent Organ".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Sliding into second base.
(b) Home run.
(c) Rounding second base.
(d) Rounding third base.

2. How often does Kafuku draw "distinctions between men and women in his daily life" (4)?
(a) Often.
(b) Frequently.
(c) Seldom.
(d) Constantly.

3. What does Goto tell the narrator had been the cause of Dr. Tokai's decision to live no longer?
(a) Dr. Tokai had forced himself to break up with his one love and had then regretted his decision.ant
(b) Dr. Tokai's one love had left him for a younger man after she had taken a great deal of money from Dr. Tokai.
(c) Dr. Tokai's one love had committed suicide.
(d) Dr. Tokai had wanted to keep seeing other women and had lost his one love as a result.

4. In what play is Kafuku acting at his main theater at the time of the story's narrative?
(a) Equus.
(b) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
(c) Uncle Vanya.
(d) The Crucible.

5. When making a point about the obscurity of the Kansai dialect, Kitaru's long-time girlfriend declares that no one has ever translated which book into the Kansai dialect?
(a) Lord of the Flies.
(b) The Catcher in the Rye.
(c) War and Peace.
(d) Franny and Zooey.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Haruki Murakami uses a simile to indicate Kafuku's level of trust in Oba, what metal does he reference?

2. What other fact is included alongside the narrator's statement that Kitaru had failed his college entrance exams twice?

3. For what period of time does the friendship between Kafuku and Takatsuki last?

4. Who coordinates Dr. Tokai's personal calendar?

5. Oba guesses that Kafuku's future driver is about how old?

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