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

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

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

4. What kind of animal takes up residence in Kino's bar after he opens it but before other customers start to arrive?

5. The narrator states that Dr. Tokai had always kept his distance from women who expressed interest in what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How is the theme of secrecy depicted within the story entitled "An Independent Organ"?

7. Describe Scheherazade's routine upon arriving at Habara's house twice per week.

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within the book and what is Murakami's message regarding these themes?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is the theme of hope depicted within Murakami's short story collection Men Without Women?

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