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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 strange thing did Nagasawa once eat to end a feud between freshmen and upperclassmen?
(a) Slugs.
(b) Bats.
(c) Worms.
(d) Goldfish.

2. How did Midori's mother die?
(a) Car accident.
(b) Brain cancer.
(c) Kidney failure.
(d) Heart attack.

3. What does Midori's family do?
(a) Her father owns a veterinary clinic.
(b) They are farmers.
(c) Her parents are teachers.
(d) They run a bookstore.

4. What class does Toru have with Midori?
(a) Early Japanese Poetry.
(b) Shakespeare in Performance.
(c) History of Drama.
(d) Psychology.

5. What happened on campus in May?
(a) A faculty strike began.
(b) A sit-in for peace.
(c) A student strike began.
(d) A bomb threat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Toru tell the dorm head that he is going when he leaves for Ami Hostel?

2. What was Naoko talking about in the meadow?

3. Which of these things is not something the patients at Ami Hostel do in the evenings?

4. What does Toru say was Nagasawa's greatest virtue?

5. What does Toru think about after Reiko leaves him in the apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Toru feel about joining Nagasawa's womanizing expeditions?

2. Describe Toru's roommate.

3. How was Toru's dorm room different from most of the others?

4. What sorts of things do Naoko and her fellow patients do for entertainment at the hostel?

5. Describe Area C.

6. How did Toru and Naoko celebrate her twentieth birthday?

7. Describe Nagasawa.

8. Why didn't Midori like her high school?

9. Why is Toru writing this book?

10. Why does the narrator, Toru, say that memory is such a funny thing as he describes the scene he remembers from the meadow?

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