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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 was Toru's favorite book?
(a) "The Sun Also Rises."
(b) "The Great Gatsby."
(c) "Slaughterhouse Five."
(d) "In Cold Blood."

2. What does "Midori" mean?
(a) "Sunlight."
(b) "Flower."
(c) "Green."
(d) "Peach girl."

3. 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.

4. What did Storm Trooper give Toru at the end of July?
(a) Stationery.
(b) A firefly.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) A radio.

5. How long has Naoko been at Ami Hostel?
(a) Four months.
(b) Three weeks.
(c) Six months.
(d) Nine months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lives in Area C?

2. What Beatles song has Naoko agreed to pay Reiko for when she requests it?

3. What does Naoko say would be "wrong"?

4. What strange thing did Nagasawa once eat to end a feud between freshmen and upperclassmen?

5. In what month was Toru's birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Naoko tell Toru in the letter she sent him in July 1969?

2. How did Toru become friends with Nagasawa?

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

4. How do Toru's living arrangements change after summer break?

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

6. Why is Naoko's roommate referred to as "Dr. Ishida"?

7. How does Toru spend the summer break?

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

9. Describe the day Kizuki died.

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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