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

2. With respect to the topic of "being quick on the draw" (86), the narrator references a film by what famous director?
(a) Federico Fellini.
(b) Cecil B. DeMille.
(c) Francois Truffaut.
(d) Alfred Hitchcock.

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

4. When Gregor Samsa makes it out of his bedroom, he finds that there is a total of how many doors in the hallway?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

5. What action does Misaki Watari take that makes Kafuku think that the action must be one that everyone in Junitakicho undertakes?
(a) Lights a match with no hands.
(b) Throws her cigarette butt out the window.
(c) Swears in mixed company.
(d) Smokes her cigarette with the windows rolled up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scheherazade always bring to Habara's house when she comes to see him?

2. How old was Tanimura when he went away to college?

3. The first line of the story Scheherazade uses what two adjectives to describe the stories Habara's "support liaison" (121) tells him?

4. What object is named as something that "fulfilled its structural role but aspired to nothing further" (186) at the start of "Samsa in Love"?

5. What color is Kafuku's car?

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