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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. How does the narrator of "An Independent Organ" describe the level of success enjoyed by Dr. Tokai's medical practice?
(a) Dwindling prospects.
(b) Breaking even.
(c) Booming business.
(d) Mountains of debt.

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

3. Kino describes his bar as "a place where his heart could be" (153) what?
(a) Tethered.
(b) Set free.
(c) Happy.
(d) Healed.

4. When Dr. Tokai finally falls in love, it is with a woman of what age?
(a) 3 years his junior.
(b) His age.
(c) 16 years his senior.
(d) 16 years his junior.

5. At what point in her life does Scheherazade say she had realized her former status as a particular creature?
(a) During college.
(b) During high school.
(c) During junior high school.
(d) During elementary school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase does Dr. Tokai use to describe what his friends all tell him about parenting?

2. Where do Kino and his female customer go in order to have sex with one another?

3. The female customer who frequents Kino's bar collects what type of records?

4. Within one of Scheherazade's stories, she confides in Habara that she had been a high school junior when she first took what action?

5. When Kino finally learns the name of the bald man who always sits in the same spot in his bar, what is it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Around the time Kino's cat disappears, what other creatures begins to show up outside of the bar and what do they symbolize?

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

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

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

5. The narrator states that "affable" (83) people almost always have what other qualities?

6. What are Kino's feelings toward his ex-wife and her lover, who had also been Kino's colleague?

7. In what way is foreshadowing employed within the narrator's memory of his last conversation with Dr. Tokai?

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

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

10. 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?

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