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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Naoko say is her favorite time of day?
(a) Morning.
(b) Sunset.
(c) Noontime.
(d) Late at night.

2. To whom does Toru turn for advice on his relationships with Naoko and Midori?
(a) Itoh.
(b) Hatsumi.
(c) Reiko.
(d) Nagasawa.

3. What is stored in the shed where Reiko and Toru talk the night before he leaves?
(a) Holiday decorations.
(b) Paint and building maintenance equipment.
(c) Lawn and garden maintenance equipment.
(d) Winter sports equipment.

4. What color dress does Hatsumi wear to the celebration dinner?
(a) Midnight blue.
(b) Crimson.
(c) Black.
(d) Forest green.

5. What day of the week does Midori finally call Toru?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Monday.

6. After the porno movie and more drinks, what does Midori announce she wants to do?
(a) Go home to bed.
(b) Ride a bike through the city.
(c) Go swimming.
(d) Climb a tree.

7. What do we learn happens to Hatsumi?
(a) She marries Nagasawa.
(b) She becomes a famous novelist.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She is killed in a car accident the day after her pool game with Toru.

8. What does Toru watch the Sunday he writes to Naoko about Midori's father?
(a) Children flying kites.
(b) A Little League game.
(c) A free jazz concert in the park.
(d) City workers planting flowers.

9. Who taught Hatsumi to play pool?
(a) Her first boyfriend.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Nagasawa.

10. What college's sweatshirt does Hatsumi put on when she and Toru return to her apartment?
(a) MIT's.
(b) The Sorbonne's.
(c) Princeton's.
(d) Oxford's.

11. Which of these is not something Nagasawa offers to give to Toru when he's through with it?
(a) His refrigerator.
(b) His radio.
(c) His motorcycle.
(d) His television.

12. What does Toru say he likes Midori a lot like?
(a) A perfect cup of coffee.
(b) A rainbow.
(c) A spring bear.
(d) A dancing butterfly.

13. Why is Midori's father in the hospital?
(a) He had a heart attack.
(b) He had a stroke.
(c) He had a kidney transplant.
(d) He has a brain tumor.

14. What does Toru receive an invitation to in the spring of 1970?
(a) Reiko's leaving-the-sanatorium celebration.
(b) A cousin's wedding.
(c) His uncle's retirement party.
(d) His high school reunion.

15. What song did a girl ask Toru to play at the record shop at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) "Scarborough Fair."
(b) "White Room."
(c) "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
(d) "Spinning Wheel."

Short Answer Questions

1. On what does Toru cut his hand at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. What did Toru and Itoh drink at Itoh's apartment?

3. What is the first thing Midori asks Toru about the day she decides to talk to him again?

4. What part-time job does Toru take after classes start again?

5. Which bird does Naoko joke she wouldn't mind freezing?

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