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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, "Lost Property".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Eiji telephones Akiko Kato's office?
(a) He's told Akiko Kato no longer works there.
(b) He's told Akiko Kato is in a meeting.
(c) He's put on hold for a long time and hangs up in frustration.
(d) Akiko hangs up on him.

2. In Eiji's fantasy about Akiko Kato in Chapter One, with what does he escape her building?
(a) A key to a safe deposit box containing stolen jewels.
(b) A picture of his father.
(c) Her file on his father.
(d) Akiko Kato's purse.

3. Which of the following statements does not describe Mr. Aoyama?
(a) He wears a gold stud earring in his ear.
(b) He is bald.
(c) He has a perfect Adolf Hitler mustache.
(d) He is paranoid and thinks Eiji is a consultant spying on him.

4. Which of Eiji's coworkers commits suicide when told he is being demoted?
(a) Suga.
(b) Akiko Kato.
(c) Mr. Aoyama.
(d) Mrs. Sasaki.

5. Why does Eiji do what he does to the thunder god's statue when he is eleven?
(a) To worship the thunder god.
(b) To rebel against his mother and father.
(c) To fulfill his initiation into a gang.
(d) To pay the god back for Anju's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements is not part of the fantasy Eiji tells Anju about the whalestone, a giant rock that emerges from the sea?

2. What does Eiji think about Anju's ability to swim to the whalestone?

3. What does the letter Eiji receives from his mother in Chapter Two reveal?

4. With whom do eleven-year-old Anju and Eiji live?

5. Who does Eiji fantasize knocking out with the item in his toolbox?

(see the answer key)

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