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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does Scheherazade come to see Habara?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Twice a month.
(c) Every day.
(d) Once a week.

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

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

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?
(a) 2/3.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 1/3.
(d) 3/4.

5. When Kino finally learns the name of the bald man who always sits in the same spot in his bar, what is it?
(a) Jericho.
(b) Kanda.
(c) Kamita.
(d) Kami.

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

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

8. 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) Had a vision of her former life as a different creature.
(b) Broke into someone's house.
(c) Kissed a boy.
(d) Took an illegal drug.

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

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

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

12. 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 attended her wedding.
(b) He had kissed her once on the forehead.
(c) He had bought her an expensive wedding present.
(d) He had burned her photograph in his fireplace.

13. Once the bald man starts coming regularly to Kino's establishment, how often does he come?
(a) Twice, or at most three, times per week.
(b) Once, or at most, twice per week.
(c) Twice, or at most, three times a month.
(d) Once, or at most, twice per month.

14. Within the narrator's present-tense description of Dr. Tokai, what is NOT a characteristic the narrator lists?
(a) Dr. Tokai lives in an elegant building in Tokyo.
(b) Dr. Tokai is 38 years old.
(c) Dr. Tokai is 52 years old.
(d) Dr. Tokai has never been married.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Tokai believes that upon reaching adolescence, all kids become what?

2. Kamita gives Kino what explicit advice as Kino sets off on his long journey?

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

4. The narrator of "An Independent Organ" describes his own marital status in what way?

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

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