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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Samsa in Love" and "Men Without Women".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The female customer who frequents Kino's bar collects what type of records?
(a) Classical.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Classic rock.
(d) Psychedelic rock.

2. What favor does the man who services Kafuku's car do for Kafuku at the beginning of the story?
(a) He recommends a driver to Kafuku.
(b) He gives Kafuku's car a free wash.
(c) He gives him a coupon for twenty percent off his next service.
(d) He lies to Kafuku's wife about where he has been.

3. For what reason does Tanimura dislike baths?
(a) He gets bored.
(b) He has a phobia about germs.
(c) He does not like to get wrinkled skin.
(d) He is scared of water.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the narrator's wife ask the narrator after asking him who had been on the phone?

2. 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?

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

4. What is NOT a theory Gregor Samsa develops in response to seeing that the bedroom window has been boarded shut?

5. For how long had Dr. Tokai been seeing the married woman before he had fallen in love with her?

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