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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 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 hired an ineffective tutor.
(c) Kitaru had never studied for the exams.
(d) Kitaru had never wanted to attend college.

2. Where do Kino and his female customer go in order to have sex with one another?
(a) Downstairs to the bar's basement.
(b) To a hotel across the street from the bar.
(c) To the female customer's apartment.
(d) Upstairs to Kino's apartment.

3. Who is the narrator of the story "Yesterday"?
(a) Tanimura and Kitaru.
(b) Tanimura.
(c) Kitaru.
(d) Tanimura, Kitaru, and Erika.

4. Gregor Samsa describes his ears as "jutting out like a pair of" (188) what?
(a) Coffee mugs.
(b) Slices of bread.
(c) Seashells.
(d) Pancakes.

5. How does Kafuku feel about sitting in the back of his own car once Watari begins to act as his driver?
(a) He finds the view from a different perspective refreshing.
(b) He likes to stare at Watari's birthmark.
(c) He gets carsick.
(d) He feels emasculated.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. For how long had Kitaru been dating his long-time girlfriend before Tanimura had accompanied the couple on a date?

3. What does Goto tell the narrator had been the cause of Dr. Tokai's decision to live no longer?

4. When Kitaru describes feelings as if he is splitting himself in two, he names what two emotions?

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

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