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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 exam does Toru have coming up later in the week?
(a) History of Drama.
(b) German.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Shakespeare in Performance.

2. Why is one of the girls Toru meets going to Nagano?
(a) To meet her brand-new nephew.
(b) To see her boyfriend.
(c) To attend her grandfather's funeral.
(d) To attend her brother's wedding.

3. What makes a crunching noise under Naoko and Toru's feet?
(a) Fallen leaves.
(b) Dead cicadas.
(c) Acorns.
(d) Seashells.

4. What does Naoko say would be "wrong"?
(a) For a person to make a promise s/he cannot keep.
(b) For one person to watch over another forever.
(c) For two people who don't love one another to get married.
(d) For them to keep any secrets from one another.

5. How did Kizuki die?
(a) Pill overdose.
(b) Carbon monoxide poisoning.
(c) Gun wound.
(d) Hanging.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many letters did Toru send to Naoko?

2. What could Toru hear in the distance while he and Naoko were in the meadow?

3. What movie does Toru go to see by himself?

4. How many years have passed since the day in the meadow?

5. How much weight has Naoko gained?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the day Kizuki died.

2. How does Toru spend the summer break?

3. How did Storm Trooper affect Toru and Naoko's plans in January 1969?

4. Why does Naoko get angry at Toru in the meadow?

5. Describe Nagasawa.

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

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

8. What causes the narrator to feel dizzy in the opening scene of the novel?

9. Why does Naoko say it would be wrong for her to stay with Toru all the time?

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

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