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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Scheherazade's days coming to see Habara are not fixed, it is specified that she never comes when?
(a) On holidays.
(b) On weekdays.
(c) On weekends.
(d) On Fridays.

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

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

4. How many years older than Habara is Scheherazade?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

5. In college, Kino had been a "standout" (148) in what sport?
(a) Middle-distance running.
(b) Squash.
(c) Diving.
(d) Swimming.

6. What specific reason is given for Habara needing a support liaison who can bring him groceries and other items he requires?
(a) Because he cannot go outside.
(b) Because he will be killed if he emerges from the house.
(c) Because he does not like the bright lights in grocery stores.
(d) Because he has agoraphobia.

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

8. 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) Hyperbole.
(c) Personification.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

9. What does Scheherazade always bring to Habara's house when she comes to see him?
(a) Groceries.
(b) A massage table.
(c) Art supplies.
(d) Money.

10. During one of her stories, Scheherazade declares that she had been what creature in a former life?
(a) A koala.
(b) A praying mantis.
(c) A lamprey eel.
(d) A snake.

11. Kino describes his bar as "a place where his heart could be" (153) what?
(a) Tethered.
(b) Happy.
(c) Healed.
(d) Set free.

12. The narrator of "An Independent Organ" states that Dr. Tokai had never "found it odd" (84) to have how many girlfriends at once?
(a) 2 or 3.
(b) 1 or 2.
(c) 6 or 8.
(d) Several.

13. What objects had been on Habara's bedside table upon his arrival at the house north of Tokyo?
(a) X-rays.
(b) Coins.
(c) Condoms.
(d) Bottles of liquor.

14. 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 high and sterile.
(b) It is covered in vines.
(c) It is slanted and low.
(d) It is yellow and glaring.

15. What word does the narrator use to describe Dr. Tokai's sense of humor?
(a) Wry.
(b) Straightforward.
(c) Airy.
(d) Cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of "An Independent Organ" says that he had gotten married in what phase of his life?

2. What phrase does Dr. Tokai use to describe what his friends all tell him about parenting?

3. What is NOT listed among Dr. Tokai's favorite pleasures when it comes to spending time with women?

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

5. The narrator states that Dr. Tokai had always kept his distance from women who expressed interest in what?

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