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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. How does Toru tell Hatsumi that Kizuki died?
(a) Traffic accident.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Suicide.
(d) House fire.

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

3. How did Naoko's uncle commit suicide?
(a) Hanged himself.
(b) Drug overdose.
(c) Jumped in front of a train.
(d) Carbon monoxide poisoning.

4. Where do Midori and Toru go to get warm and dry that afternoon?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) The bar, DUG.
(c) His apartment.
(d) The restaurant where they met.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Midori ask Toru to explain to her as they walk through Ochanomizu Station?

2. What is the title of the novel Toru reads while Midori is sleeping?

3. What kind of pizza do Midori and Toru have?

4. What does Toru wish all girls would wear during their periods?

5. What object does Toru tell Naoko triggered memories of Kizumi at the pool hall?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens the first time Toru sees Nagasawa after the celebration dinner?

2. What happens in the middle of the night on Toru's second night in the women's apartment?

3. How does Toru get Midori's father to eat?

4. What is Toru's explanation about the importance of the subjunctive tense?

5. How does Nagasawa think he and Toru are alike?

6. What is Naoko and Reiko's first morning job?

7. What happens in the middle of the night the first night Toru is in the women's apartment that is unusual?

8. Describe Naoko's sister.

9. What was Reiko's courtship with her husband like?

10. What have Midori and her sister decided to do with the bookstore?

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