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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saves Eiji's life at the end of Chapter Four when bombs explode, killing the warring yakuza factions?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Daimon.
(c) Buntaro.
(d) A double agent, working for Mr. Tsuru, the former boss.

2. What person does Eiji decide to meet virtually in the video game Virtua Sapiens?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His stepmother.
(d) Anju.

3. Who has kidnapped Daimon and Eiji?
(a) Buntaro.
(b) Jun Nagasaki.
(c) Ryutaro Morino.
(d) Konosuke Tsuru.

4. With whom do eleven-year-old Anju and Eiji live?
(a) Their uncle.
(b) Their mother.
(c) Their father and stepmother.
(d) Their grandmother.

5. Which of the following is not something Anju can do at age eleven?
(a) Climb gym ropes faster than the boys in her class.
(b) Multiply fractions.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Read seventh-grade texts.

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

7. Who does Eiji find waiting for him when he comes out of the noodle shop in Chapter Four?
(a) Two men in a black Cadillac.
(b) Ai Imajo.
(c) Suga.
(d) Daimon.

8. What does Eiji find inside the file folder?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A letter from his birth father.
(c) His birth certificate identifying his birth father.
(d) A photo of his birth father and Akiko Kato.

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

10. What kind of insects live in Eiji's apartment?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Fleas.
(c) Flies.
(d) Cockroaches.

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

12. What interrupts Eiji's playing of the video game Virtua Sapiens?
(a) An angry man threatening the waitress with the perfect neck.
(b) The cafe being robbed.
(c) A gang attacking him.
(d) Daimon and Miriam arguing.

13. From what locale does Eiji sit and daydream about meeting Akiko Kato?
(a) A parking lot in downtown Tokyo.
(b) The Jupiter Cafe.
(c) A riverside bar called The Paradise Grill.
(d) The PanOpticon Building.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Buntaro?

2. What is Eiji Miyake's quest?

3. What mark identifies someone as a yakuza man or mobster?

4. To what does Daimon offer to treat Eiji?

5. Before leaving the video arcade in Chapter Three, with whom does Eiji get into a brief discussion?

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