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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before leaving the video arcade in Chapter Three, with whom does Eiji get into a brief discussion?
(a) Suga.
(b) A slightly older Tokyo native waiting for his date.
(c) Buntaro.
(d) Mr. Aoyama.

2. To what does Eiji's stepmother compare him?
(a) A warm, sunny day.
(b) A happy memory.
(c) A cockroach.
(d) A boil she will lance.

3. In what city does the book open?
(a) Osaka.
(b) New York.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Kyoto.

4. What does Anju learn about her mother when she accidentally overhears some local women talking in Mrs. Tanaka's store?
(a) Her mother is a drug addict.
(b) Her mother abandoned her and Eiji to pursue men.
(c) Her mother died in a car wreck.
(d) Her mother committed suicide.

5. Who is Mr. Aoyama?
(a) Substationmaster of the Ueno Station lost-property office.
(b) Eiji's soccer coach.
(c) Eiji's father.
(d) Eiji's grandfather.

6. When Eiji searches for the file folder about his father, who does he see playing the piano for the opening of another part of the entertainment complex where the yakuza are?
(a) Buntaro.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Ai Imajo.
(d) Daimon.

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

8. What does the letter Eiji receives from his stepmother accuse Eiji of planning to do?
(a) Blackmail his father.
(b) Break up his father's legitimate family.
(c) Get his parents back together.
(d) Go on the news to reveal his father's abandonment of him.

9. What kind of yakuza war is going on in Chapter Four?
(a) A war between two warring mobs.
(b) A war between Tokyo and Osaka yakuza.
(c) A price war for drugs the yakuza sell.
(d) A war of succession .

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

11. Who is Wheatie?
(a) Eiji's landlord.
(b) Anju and Eiji's mother.
(c) Eiji's girlfriend.
(d) Anju and Eiji's grandmother.

12. What instrument can Eiji play?
(a) The flute.
(b) The guitar.
(c) The violin.
(d) The piano.

13. In Eiji's fantasy about Akiko Kato, what happens to the information he finds in her office?
(a) It's stolen from him before he can read it.
(b) It proves false and doesn't lead to his father.
(c) It is accidentally shredded.
(d) The ink it's printed with disappears when exposed to air.

14. What birthday does Eiji celebrate at the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) His twentieth birthday.
(b) His twenty-fifth birthday.
(c) His thirtieth birthday.
(d) His eighteenth birthday.

15. What does Eiji do when he comes to Ai Imajo's assistance in Chapter Three?
(a) He overpowers the man with karate.
(b) He calls the police.
(c) He cowers under a table, deciding he can't help after all.
(d) He head butts the man who has been threatening Ai Imajo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eiji do to the thunder god's statue when he is eleven-years-old?

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

3. Who does Eiji find waiting for him when he comes out of the noodle shop in Chapter Four?

4. Why does Eiji do what he does to the thunder god's statue when he is eleven?

5. Who has kidnapped Daimon and Eiji?

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