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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three words does Habara record in his diary the day Scheherazade tells him about her former life as a different creature?
(a) Scheherazade, lamprey, and former lives.
(b) Scheherazade, snake, and former lives.
(c) Scheherazade, praying mantis, and former lives.
(d) Scheherazade, koala, and former lives.

2. To thank his personal scheduler, Dr. Tokai takes what action frequently?
(a) He gives compliments.
(b) He gives an annual bonus.
(c) He provides invitations to lunch.
(d) He gives gifts.

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

4. The first line of the story Scheherazade uses what two adjectives to describe the stories Habara's "support liaison" (121) tells him?
(a) Powerful and haunting.
(b) Boring and pointless.
(c) Strange and gripping.
(d) Beautiful and somber.

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

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

7. 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) Personification.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Hyperbole.

8. The narrator begins the story "An Independent Organ" by announcing that Dr. Tokai had lived what type of life?
(a) Deceptive.
(b) Artificial.
(c) Ersatz.
(d) Monotonous.

9. To Habara's amazement, Scheherazade tells him that she can recall what phase of her life?
(a) Life as an infant.
(b) Life as a teenager.
(c) Life in the womb.
(d) Life as a toddler.

10. Though Dr. Tokai does not want to get married, how does he feel about marriage in general?
(a) He feels that marriage is only for a select few.
(b) He feels that divorce rates are too high to believe in monogamous love anymore.
(c) He feels that marriage should be outlawed.
(d) He feels that marriage is a sacred institution that should be respected.

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

12. The protagonist of the story "Kino" owns what type of establishment?
(a) A bowling alley.
(b) A bar.
(c) A banquet hall.
(d) A bookstore.

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

14. At what point in her life does Scheherazade say she had realized her former status as a particular creature?
(a) During elementary school.
(b) During high school.
(c) During college.
(d) During junior high school.

15. According to the narrator, for how many years has Dr. Tokai been performing the same romance rituals?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does the narrator of "An Independent Organ" have?

2. Who coordinates Dr. Tokai's personal calendar?

3. When Kino finally learns the name of the bald man who always sits in the same spot in his bar, what is it?

4. 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?

5. The narrator of "An Independent Organ" states that most of the story's contents come from what source?

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