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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. Within one of Scheherazade's stories, she confides in Habara that she had been a high school junior when she first took what action?
(a) Took an illegal drug.
(b) Kissed a boy.
(c) Had a vision of her former life as a different creature.
(d) Broke into someone's house.

2. When Kino first sees the bald man come into his establishment, he pegs him as a what?
(a) A businessman.
(b) A racist.
(c) A taxi driver.
(d) A yakuza.

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

4. Tanimura describes Kitaru as looking like a "sensitive, well-brought-up city boy" (50) until he takes what action?
(a) Stabs a friend in the back.
(b) Puts on unfashionable clothing.
(c) Opens his mouth.
(d) Starts to walk.

5. Kitaru remarks that his parents are constantly nagging him about what element of his behavior?
(a) He has not declared a major.
(b) He has not asked his long-time girlfriend to marry him.
(c) He rarely calls home.
(d) He does not study enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Tokai believes that upon reaching adolescence, all kids become what?

2. What does Habara name as something his support liaison, whom he calls Scheherazade, never says out loud?

3. In college, Tanimura had worked in what type of establishment with Kitaru?

4. The narrator of "Men Without Women" says that the love of his life had displayed an "offbeat sense of" (221) what?

5. The protagonist of the story "Kino" owns what type of establishment?

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