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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ceiling overhead the bald man when he sits at his favorite and only spot in Kino's establishment has what characteristics?
(a) It is slanted and low.
(b) It is covered in vines.
(c) It is yellow and glaring.
(d) It is high and sterile.

2. Tanimura accuses Kitaru of taking what action in relation to the song Yesterday?
(a) Minimizing it.
(b) Attacking it.
(c) Butchering it.
(d) Making fun of it.

3. What does Habara name as something his support liaison, whom he calls Scheherazade, never says out loud?
(a) Her age.
(b) Her own wishes.
(c) His name.
(d) The number of children she has.

4. Kafuku describes his new, as yet unnamed, driver as having "strikingly clear eyes" (7) that look out on the world in what way?
(a) Threateningly.
(b) Lovingly.
(c) Quietly.
(d) Suspiciously.

5. How many years older than Habara is Scheherazade?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within the narrator's present-tense description of Dr. Tokai, what is NOT a characteristic the narrator lists?

2. What kind of animal takes up residence in Kino's bar after he opens it but before other customers start to arrive?

3. What three words does Habara record in his diary the day Scheherazade tells him about her former life as a different creature?

4. The girlfriend from whom Tanimura parted before college hailed from what location?

5. What type of literary device is used within Kino's wife's declaration that there had been something wrong between her and Kino from the start, "as if [they'd] done the buttons up wrong" (168)?

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