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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 word does the narrator use to describe Dr. Tokai's sense of humor?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Wry.
(c) Airy.
(d) Straightforward.

2. 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) Having dinner with the women.
(d) Drinking wine with the women.

3. To Habara's amazement, Scheherazade tells him that she can recall what phase of her life?
(a) Life as a teenager.
(b) Life as an infant.
(c) Life in the womb.
(d) Life as a toddler.

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

5. Where do Kino and his female customer go in order to have sex with one another?
(a) Downstairs to the bar's basement.
(b) Upstairs to Kino's apartment.
(c) To a hotel across the street from the bar.
(d) To the female customer's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most of Dr. Tokai's friends are said to be what?

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

3. 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)?

4. Dr. Tokai's girlfriends always display which quality?

5. What does Scheherazade always bring to Habara's house when she comes to see him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Goto and what is his role in the story entitled "An Independent Organ"?

2. The unnamed narrator of the story "An Independent Organ" presents Dr. Tokai as an example of what type of person?

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

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

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

6. What attitude does the unnamed narrator have about the prospect of having children?

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

8. How is the theme of escape depicted within Habara's receipt of Scheherazade's stories?

9. How is vivid imagery employed within Scheherazade's depiction of her former life as a lamprey eel?

10. How does the theme of appearance versus reality emerge within the stories that Scheherazade tells to Habara?

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