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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Who promises to pay for a hotel room for the night and then leaves Eiji with the bill?
(a) Daimon.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Velvet.
(d) Bunaro.

4. In what guise does Eiji fantasize that he sneaks into Akiko Kato's building?
(a) As an aquarium cleaner.
(b) As a security guard.
(c) As a paramedic.
(d) As a policeman.

5. Which of the following statements does not describe Daimon?
(a) He is a gifted pool player.
(b) He is a final-year law student.
(c) He is from Germany.
(d) He is a native of Tokyo.

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. Who is Buntaro?
(a) Eiji's landlord.
(b) Eiji's father.
(c) Eiji's best friend.
(d) Eiji's older brother.

11. What happens when Eiji finally goes to Akiko Kato's office to confront her?
(a) Akiko Kato no longer works in the building.
(b) Akiko Kato has him arrested.
(c) Security turns him away before he gets to the elevator.
(d) Akiko Kato refuses to see him.

12. What magazine does Suga read in Chapter Two?
(a) Time.
(b) Sports Illustrated.
(c) People.
(d) MasterHacker.

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

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

15. 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 thinks she can easily swim that far.
(c) He doesn't think she can swim that far.
(d) He thinks she can swim to the whalestone, but not very fast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eiji have to do in exchange for information on his father?

2. Where do the yakuza men lock Eiji in Chapter Four?

3. What happens when Eiji telephones Akiko Kato's office?

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

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

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