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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Habara name as something his support liaison, whom he calls Scheherazade, never says out loud?
(a) The number of children she has.
(b) His name.
(c) Her own wishes.
(d) Her age.

2. The person who coordinates Dr. Tokai's personal calendar also records the patterns of what element in each girlfriend's life?
(a) Her husband's birthdays.
(b) Her ovulation cycle.
(c) A list of her current favorite flowers and jewels.
(d) Her menstrual cycle.

3. Dr. Tokai believes that upon reaching adolescence, all kids become what?
(a) Closed.
(b) Rude.
(c) Sex-obsessed.
(d) Arrogant.

4. What object does Dr. Tokai instruct to be given to the narrator upon Dr. Tokai's death?
(a) A lightbulb.
(b) A squash racket.
(c) A clock.
(d) A picnic basket.

5. How had Dr. Tokai acquired his medical practice?
(a) He had inherited it from his father.
(b) He had inherited it from his grandfather.
(c) He had purchased it himself.
(d) He had begun as an apprentice and had worked his way up to owner.

6. What is the cause of Dr. Tokai's death?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Jumping off a bridge.
(c) Self-starvation.
(d) Drug overdose.

7. The ceiling overhead the bald man when he sits at his favorite and only spot in Kino's establishment has what characteristics?
(a) It is covered in vines.
(b) It is high and sterile.
(c) It is yellow and glaring.
(d) It is slanted and low.

8. What verb is used to describe the way in which Habara had come to the "provincial city north of Tokyo" (121) four months before the story's beginning?
(a) Brought.
(b) Transported.
(c) Moved.
(d) Led.

9. 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)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

10. For how long had Dr. Tokai been seeing the married woman before he had fallen in love with her?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 1 1/2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

11. When Dr. Tokai finally falls in love, it is with a woman of what age?
(a) His age.
(b) 16 years his senior.
(c) 16 years his junior.
(d) 3 years his junior.

12. What fraction of the women who had broken up with Dr. Tokai in order to marry another man had eventually gotten back in touch with Dr. Tokai?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 3/4.
(c) 2/3.
(d) 1/3.

13. How does Dr. Tokai say his method had worked in relation to keeping himself from falling in love with the married woman?
(a) Perfectly.
(b) Just okay.
(c) Not so well.
(d) Great.

14. Dr. Tokai has housekeepers that perform their duties at his home how often?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Twice a month.
(c) Twice a week.
(d) Three times a week.

15. The female customer who frequents Kino's bar collects what type of records?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Classic rock.
(c) Classical.
(d) Psychedelic rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years had Kino worked as a sports equipment maker before buying the establishment at the center of the story?

2. Most of Dr. Tokai's friends are said to be what?

3. When Kino and his ex-wife meet once their divorce is finalized, what does Kino's wife say she has been wanting to tell Kino?

4. What adjective is used to describe the wedding presents Dr. Tokai buys for his paramours when they get married to another man?

5. Habara describes his frequent sexual experiences with Scheherazade as neither "businesslike" (122) nor what?

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