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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator states that the conversations between Kafuku and Takatsuki always come back to what topic?
(a) Love.
(b) Takatsuki.
(c) Kafuku's late wife.
(d) Politics.

3. For what reason has Kitaru not had sex with his long-time girlfriend by the time Tanimura accompanies the couple on a date?
(a) Kitaru sees his long-time girlfriend as more of a sister than as a girlfriend.
(b) Kitaru's long-time girlfriend is committed to waiting until marriage.
(c) Kitaru struggles with erectile dysfunction.
(d) Kitaru's religious faith requires his chastity until marriage.

4. At what type of location do Kitaru, Tanimura, and Kitaru's long-time girlfriend meet for the first time?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A train station.
(c) A coffee shop.
(d) A beach.

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

6. What is the name of Kitaru's long-time girlfriend?
(a) Erika.
(b) Barbara.
(c) Jill.
(d) Rachel.

7. Tanimura had wanted to become a new person when he took what action?
(a) When he broke up with his long-time girlfriend.
(b) When he went to Tokyo to attend college.
(c) When he went to Kansai to attend college.
(d) When he severed his friendship with Kitaru.

8. Oba guesses that Kafuku's future driver is about how old?
(a) In her late teens.
(b) In her mid-twenties.
(c) In her mid-thirties.
(d) In her early twenties.

9. What main element do Kitaru and Tanimura have in common?
(a) They had both lived with many members of their extended families.
(b) They had both lived in fancy houses within ordinary neighborhoods.
(c) They had both lived in ordinary houses within rich neighborhoods.
(d) They had both lived in the worst neighborhood in the area.

10. Tanimura describes college to Kitaru using which single word?
(a) Money.
(b) Drag.
(c) Girls.
(d) Fun.

11. On their date together, Tanimura and Kitaru's long-time girlfriend go to what location?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A bar.
(c) The movie theater.
(d) A strip club.

12. What does Kafuku tell Misaki Watari after stating that he has wanted to tell her for a while?
(a) That there is something very off-putting about her.
(b) That there is something very sensual about her.
(c) That there is something very attractive about her.
(d) That there is something truly maddening about her.

13. When Kitaru describes feelings as if he is splitting himself in two, he names what two emotions?
(a) Worry and relief.
(b) Elation and apprehension.
(c) Curiosity and depression.
(d) Sadness and excitement.

14. 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.

15. Before their friendship ends, Takatsuki tells Kafuku that it is impossible to take what action?
(a) To escape the reality of human loneliness.
(b) To love another as much as one loves the self.
(c) To utter the perfect words in a time of crisis.
(d) To see into another person's heart with perfect clarity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had been Kafuku's original intentions when he had first contacted Takatsuki?

2. What action does Misaki Watari take that makes Kafuku think that the action must be one that everyone in Junitakicho undertakes?

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

4. Kafuku comes away from his meeting with Oba with the impression that his new driver will be all but which of the following things?

5. Kafuki tells Watari that he likes what objects because they are "easier than CDs" (9)?

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