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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the cause of Dr. Tokai's death?
2. What kind of animal takes up residence in Kino's bar after he opens it but before other customers start to arrive?
3. Most of Dr. Tokai's friends are said to be what?
4. At what point in her life does Scheherazade say she had realized her former status as a particular creature?
5. How does Dr. Tokai say his method had worked in relation to keeping himself from falling in love with the married woman?
Short Essay Questions
1. Name the mysterious elements present within the story "Scheherazade" that are not resolved by the end of the story.
2. What attitude does the unnamed narrator have about the prospect of having children?
3. Who is Goto and what is his role in the story entitled "An Independent Organ"?
4. The narrator states that "affable" (83) people almost always have what other qualities?
5. Describe the relationship between Kino and his aunt.
6. How is vivid imagery employed within Scheherazade's depiction of her former life as a lamprey eel?
7. To what work is the title of the story "Scheherazade" referring and what is the significance of the title?
8. How does the theme of appearance versus reality emerge within the stories that Scheherazade tells to Habara?
9. What is the symbolism inherent in Kino's bar?
10. How does Kino come to own a bar and what had he done for work prior to the purchase?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Haruki Murakami's short story collection Men Without Women.
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Murakami in order to create vivid pictures of each different character within the short story collection. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by Murakami provide for the creation of vivid characters.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Murakami's focus on the theme of transformation in Haruki Murakami's short story collection Men Without Women. What message is being sent about the nature of change?
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