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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT listed among Dr. Tokai's favorite pleasures when it comes to spending time with women?
(a) Drinking wine with the women.
(b) Having sex with the women.
(c) Talking with the women.
(d) Having dinner with the women.

2. How many of his own former lives does Habara tell Scheherazade that he can recall?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) None.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

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

5. Within one of Scheherazade's stories, she confides in Habara that she had been a high school junior when she first took what action?
(a) Kissed a boy.
(b) Took an illegal drug.
(c) Broke into someone's house.
(d) Had a vision of her former life as a different creature.

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

7. The narrator describes truly happy families as occurring as frequently as what other phenomenon?
(a) Perfect games in backgammon.
(b) Living longer than one's spouse.
(c) Finding a needle in a haystack.
(d) Hat tricks in soccer.

8. 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) Several.
(c) 6 or 8.
(d) 1 or 2.

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

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

11. What kind of blemishes does Kino's female customer reveal to him the night they have sex?
(a) Birthmarks.
(b) Rashes.
(c) Cigarette burn scars.
(d) Boils.

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

13. When Kino first sees the bald man come into his establishment, he pegs him as a what?
(a) A yakuza.
(b) A taxi driver.
(c) A racist.
(d) A businessman.

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

15. Dr. Tokai tells the narrator that a gentleman does not talk about the women he sleeps with nor about what other subject?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Religion.
(c) Politics.
(d) Morality.

Short Answer Questions

1. In college, Kino had been a "standout" (148) in what sport?

2. While Scheherazade's days coming to see Habara are not fixed, it is specified that she never comes when?

3. To Habara's amazement, Scheherazade tells him that she can recall what phase of her life?

4. What kind of doctor is Dr. Tokai?

5. Though Dr. Tokai does not want to get married, how does he feel about marriage in general?

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