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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) One Hundred Years of Solitude.
(c) Robinson Crusoe.
(d) Catch-22.

3. Who coordinates Dr. Tokai's personal calendar?
(a) Dr. Tokai's male secretary.
(b) Dr. Tokai's mother.
(c) Dr. Tokai's female secretary.
(d) The unnamed narrator of the story.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Habara name as something his support liaison, whom he calls Scheherazade, never says out loud?

2. The narrator begins the story "An Independent Organ" by announcing that Dr. Tokai had lived what type of life?

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

4. The ceiling overhead the bald man when he sits at his favorite and only spot in Kino's establishment has what characteristics?

5. What is NOT listed among Dr. Tokai's favorite pleasures when it comes to spending time with women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of doctor is Dr. Tokai and how does his job relate to his preferred habits regarding dating?

2. To what work is the title of the story "Scheherazade" referring and what is the significance of the title?

3. What is Dr. Tokai's eventual fate?

4. When the narrator states that Dr. Tokai had displayed no signs of an unstable personality, what traits does he list as being absent within Dr. Tokai's personality?

5. What is the symbolism inherent in Kino's bar?

6. Dr. Tokai describes himself to the narrator using what two adjectives?

7. How does Kino come to own a bar and what had he done for work prior to the purchase?

8. Describe the relationship between Kino and his aunt.

9. In what ways is the unnamed narrator of "An Independent Organ" suggested to be possibly unreliable?

10. Name the mysterious elements present within the story "Scheherazade" that are not resolved by the end of the story.

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