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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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?
(a) That she is pregnant with Kino's child.
(b) That she wants to resume their relationship.
(c) That she is engaged.
(d) That she is sorry for cheating on him.

3. The day after Kino and his female customer have sex, what time does Kino awake to find the woman gone?
(a) Nearly ten in the morning.
(b) Nearly six in the morning.
(c) Nearly three in the afternoon.
(d) Nearly noon.

4. What phrase does Dr. Tokai use to describe what his friends all tell him about parenting?
(a) Smoke screen.
(b) Wishful thinking.
(c) Mirage in the desert.
(d) Sales pitch.

5. 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 does not like the bright lights in grocery stores.
(c) Because he has agoraphobia.
(d) Because he will be killed if he emerges from the house.

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

7. To what work is Habara alluding when he decides to refer privately to his support liaison as Scheherazade?
(a) One Thousand and One Nights.
(b) Robinson Crusoe.
(c) Catch-22.
(d) One Hundred Years of Solitude.

8. Habara describes his frequent sexual experiences with Scheherazade as neither "businesslike" (122) nor what?
(a) Sensual.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Routine.
(d) Engaging.

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

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

11. 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 slanted and low.
(c) It is yellow and glaring.
(d) It is high and sterile.

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

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

14. 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.

15. With respect to the topic of "being quick on the draw" (86), the narrator references a film by what famous director?
(a) Alfred Hitchcock.
(b) Cecil B. DeMille.
(c) Francois Truffaut.
(d) Federico Fellini.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Within the narrator's present-tense description of Dr. Tokai, what is NOT a characteristic the narrator lists?

3. What word does the narrator use to describe Dr. Tokai's sense of humor?

4. What objects had been on Habara's bedside table upon his arrival at the house north of Tokyo?

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

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