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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Tokai's girlfriends always display which quality?
(a) They are always models.
(b) They are always thin.
(c) They are always married or have steady boyfriends.
(d) They are always rich.

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

3. What kind of doctor is Dr. Tokai?
(a) A dentist.
(b) A psychologist.
(c) A plastic surgeon.
(d) A podiatrist.

4. 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) Hyperbole.
(d) Personification.

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

6. What adjective is used to describe the wedding presents Dr. Tokai buys for his paramours when they get married to another man?
(a) Expensive.
(b) Cursory.
(c) Impulsive.
(d) Personalized.

7. What kind of animal takes up residence in Kino's bar after he opens it but before other customers start to arrive?
(a) A snake.
(b) A cat.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A dog.

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

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

10. What method does Dr. Tokai use in order to try to keep himself from falling in love with the married woman?
(a) He mentally lists her negative qualities.
(b) He says mean things to her.
(c) He imagines that she is ugly.
(d) He imagines her making love to another man.

11. 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) Led.
(c) Transported.
(d) Moved.

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

13. What does Goto tell the narrator had been the cause of Dr. Tokai's decision to live no longer?
(a) Dr. Tokai had forced himself to break up with his one love and had then regretted his decision.ant
(b) Dr. Tokai had wanted to keep seeing other women and had lost his one love as a result.
(c) Dr. Tokai's one love had committed suicide.
(d) Dr. Tokai's one love had left him for a younger man after she had taken a great deal of money from Dr. Tokai.

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

15. What action had Dr. Tokai always taken when a woman had broken up with him so that she could marry her other boyfriend?
(a) He had kissed her once on the forehead.
(b) He had bought her an expensive wedding present.
(c) He had attended her wedding.
(d) He had burned her photograph in his fireplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of his own former lives does Habara tell Scheherazade that he can recall?

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

3. During one of her stories, Scheherazade declares that she had been what creature in a former life?

4. Once the bald man starts coming regularly to Kino's establishment, how often does he come?

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

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