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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does not describe what happens to Daimon after the yakuza release him?
(a) He is weak because the yakuza drained his blood.
(b) Eiji has Buntaro put him in Eiji's apartment.
(c) He dies.
(d) Eiji puts him in a taxi.

2. What does Eiji think about Anju's ability to swim to the whalestone?
(a) He thinks the water is too deep for her.
(b) He doesn't think she can swim that far.
(c) He thinks she can easily swim that far.
(d) He thinks she can swim to the whalestone, but not very fast.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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 suffers from migraines.
(d) He is too busy studying.

10. On whose cell phone conversation does Eiji eavesdrop?
(a) Donkey's.
(b) Dowager's.
(c) The waitress with the perfect neck's.
(d) Akiko Kato's.

11. Why have Daimon and Eiji been kidnapped?
(a) Because of their involvement with Miriam, Morino's girlfriend.
(b) Because they didn't pay their bill at the Queen of Spades.
(c) Because the yakuza thinks they stole yakuza money.
(d) Because Eiji's father is a yakuza leader.

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

13. Who does Eiji fantasize knocking out with the item in his toolbox?
(a) His mother.
(b) His boss, his landlord, and his father.
(c) The receptionist, Akiko Kato's bioborg, and Akiko Kato.
(d) His father.

14. What happens when Eiji asks for the file folder about his father?
(a) The yakuza burn it.
(b) It is given to him.
(c) The yakuza break his arm.
(d) He's told to leave before he's beaten senseless.

15. How does Ai Imajo suggest that Eiji search for his father in Tokyo?
(a) By seeing his mother and making her lead him to his father.
(b) By putting an ad in the newspaper's personal columns.
(c) By going on television.
(d) By hiring a private detective.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eiji find the file folder about his father?

2. Who promises to pay for a hotel room for the night and then leaves Eiji with the bill?

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

4. What does the letter Eiji receives from his stepmother accuse Eiji of planning to do?

5. What kind of business does Buntaro own?

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