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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oba tell Kafuku about the social habits of Kafuku's future driver?
(a) He says that she talks endlessly.
(b) He says that she rarely talks.
(c) He says that she has many friends.
(d) He says that she has a husband.

2. In what kind of establishment do Kafuku and Takatsuki always meet?
(a) A library.
(b) A bar.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) Kafuku's office.

3. For how long had Kitaru been dating his long-time girlfriend before Tanimura had accompanied the couple on a date?
(a) Since high school.
(b) Since elementary school.
(c) Since junior high school.
(d) Since preschool.

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

5. From what location does Tanimura hail?
(a) Okinawa.
(b) Kansai.
(c) Hanshin.
(d) Tokyo.

6. What does Kafuku tell Misaki Watari is "a killer" (36)?
(a) Loneliness.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Dishonesty.
(d) The love of a woman.

7. The title of the story "Yesterday" is an allusion to a song by what band?
(a) The Misfits.
(b) The Hives.
(c) The Rolling Stones.
(d) The Beatles.

8. Kafuku believes that the majority of female drivers fall into which two categories?
(a) Too aggressive or too timid.
(b) Distracted or intensely focused.
(c) Courteous or rude.
(d) Too slow or too fast.

9. The narrator states that Kafuku generally remains silent unless what condition is met?
(a) He is spoken to first.
(b) If he knows a person well and is talking to them about things that matter.
(c) He is acting.
(d) He is giving an interview to the press.

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

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

12. What had been Kafuku's original intentions when he had first contacted Takatsuki?
(a) He had wanted to invite Takatsuki to a dinner party.
(b) He had wanted to discover some fatal flaw with which to torture Takatsuki.
(c) He had wanted to serve Takatsuki with a subpoena.
(d) He had wanted to kill Takatsuki.

13. When making a point about the obscurity of the Kansai dialect, Kitaru's long-time girlfriend declares that no one has ever translated which book into the Kansai dialect?
(a) Lord of the Flies.
(b) Franny and Zooey.
(c) The Catcher in the Rye.
(d) War and Peace.

14. What activity does Kafuku love to do, "regardless of the season" (6)?
(a) Swim.
(b) Eat ice cream.
(c) Riding in the back of Oba's pickup truck.
(d) Drive with his convertible's top down.

15. The last line of the story "Drive My Car" states that Kafuku feels in what way about Misaki's silence in response to his comment that he is going to sleep for a little while?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Sad.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Annoyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oba tells Kafuku that his car, like all cars from what country, is "built to last" (7)?

2. When Tanimura goes away to college, he remarks that everything in his life until then has been what?

3. Tanimura declares that the writer of the song Yesterday had recorded it in the studio with how many other people?

4. What shape is the birthmark on the neck of Kafuku's new driver?

5. At 18, Tanimura had thought that what quality "constitutes who we are as people" (45)?

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