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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Velvet and Coffee?
(a) Two undercover policemen.
(b) Two girls Eiji and Daimon pick up in a bar.
(c) Two video game characters.
(d) Two waitresses at a tea house.

2. To what does Daimon offer to treat Eiji?
(a) A few drinks.
(b) A steak dinner.
(c) A day at the spa.
(d) A baseball game.

3. What is the name of the building in which Akiko Kato works?
(a) The Tokyo Hilton.
(b) The International Trading Building.
(c) The PanOpticon Building.
(d) The Japanese Stock Exchange.

4. Why can't Eiji sleep at night in Chapter Two?
(a) His neighbors keep him awake with their noise.
(b) He suffers from insomnia.
(c) He is too busy studying.
(d) He suffers from migraines.

5. Who does Eiji call Dowager and Donkey in Chapter One?
(a) Two coworkers he hates.
(b) The two older, less attractive waitresses at the cafe.
(c) His two cousins.
(d) His two supervisors.

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

7. What role does Daimon play in Eiji's finding of his lost article at the video arcade?
(a) Daimon has a dog that finds it by smell.
(b) Daimon is wearing it.
(c) Daimon searches with him for the lost article.
(d) Daimon directs him to the lost and found, and it's there.

8. With whom does Daimon seem to have tension at the Queen of Spades?
(a) Velvet and Coffee.
(b) The owner.
(c) Eiji.
(d) Miriam, one of the club's hostesses.

9. To whom does Eiji think the messages about "Father" refer?
(a) A mob godfather.
(b) His actual father.
(c) God.
(d) His priest.

10. What happens to Anju when Eiji has to leave her to go on an overnight trip with his soccer team?
(a) She drowns while trying to swim out to the whalestone.
(b) She meets their long lost mother.
(c) She is kidnapped.
(d) She has a severe asthma attack.

11. What does Eiji witness while with the yakuza?
(a) Multiple tortures and murders.
(b) A carjacking.
(c) A bank robbery.
(d) A drug sale.

12. What does Eiji do to the thunder god's statue when he is eleven-years-old?
(a) Decapitates it with a rusty hacksaw.
(b) Prays to it and leaves offerings of food for it.
(c) Decks it with roses and carnations.
(d) Burns it.

13. In Eiji's fantasy, what is hidden in his toolbox for him to use in knocking out people?
(a) A syringe filled with chloroform.
(b) A combination pistol and tranquilizer gun.
(c) A bottle of pills he will sneak into people's drinks.
(d) A pair of brass knuckles.

14. Which of the following statements is not a part of the daydream Eiji has in Chapter One while he's in the restroom?
(a) Eiji follows Akiko Kato to a theater.
(b) Akiko Kato meets a government minister at the theater.
(c) The minister at the theater is Eiji's father.
(d) Eiji fights a samurai warrior.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter Four, in what predicament does Eiji find himself?

2. Which of the following is not something Eiji has to convince his kidnapper of in order to be released?

3. What does Eiji do when he comes to Ai Imajo's assistance in Chapter Three?

4. Why is it so important for Eiji to find the article he lost in the video arcade?

5. To what does Eiji's stepmother compare him?

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