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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Eiji asks Buntaro what he can do to cover his rent now that he is no longer working at Ueno Station, what does Buntaro propose?
(a) That Eiji find a new place to live.
(b) That Eiji run the video store while Buntaro goes on vacation.
(c) That Eiji not worry about rent until he finds a new job.
(d) That Eiji get a loan from his bank to pay the rent.

2. Why does Mrs. Sasaki tell Eiji not to return to his job at Ueno Station?
(a) They closed the station after Mr. Aoyama's suicide.
(b) The yakuza or police might be looking for him there.
(c) She has a better job for him elsewhere.
(d) He has been fired.

3. What does Eiji find in the secret room of the unfamiliar house?
(a) A book manuscript written by Mrs. Sasaki's sister.
(b) A dead body.
(c) Mrs. Sasaki's old love letters.
(d) A gun.

4. What is Eiji's mother doing when he arrives at her clinic?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Having a birthday party.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating lunch.

5. Who does Ai Imajo urge Eiji to meet?
(a) His half-sister.
(b) His stepmother.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

6. In Chapter Five, how much time has lapsed since Eiji first left his village to come to Tokyo in search of his father?
(a) Two years.
(b) A week.
(c) A year.
(d) Five weeks.

7. What does Eiji's grandfather loan Eiji?
(a) A car.
(b) His most prized possession, his dead brother's journal.
(c) Money.
(d) A family photo album.

8. Why doesn't Eiji take a cigarette when Ogre offers him one?
(a) He has promised AI Imajo he will stop smoking.
(b) He is allergic to cigarettes.
(c) He fears Ogre has germs.
(d) He doesn't like Ogre.

9. What gives Ai Imajo's life meaning?
(a) Her job.
(b) Romance.
(c) Her family.
(d) Music.

10. Who responds to Eiji's personal ad in the newspaper?
(a) A man who thinks Eiji may be his son.
(b) A man who thinks Eiji may be his grandson.
(c) A woman who thinks Eiji may be her stepbrother.
(d) A woman who says she knows Eiji's father.

11. Why does Eiji miss his six o'clock visitor?
(a) He falls asleep.
(b) He hides out in the secret room.
(c) He is drugged.
(d) The visitor breaks in and remains quiet to not be detected.

12. In what does Subaru Tsukiyama find his life's meaning?
(a) In his work as a medical doctor.
(b) In raising his three children.
(c) In volunteering to sacrifice his life for his country.
(d) In charity work to help the poor.

13. When Buntaro visits Eiji in Chatper Five, who does he say has been looking for Eiji?
(a) Eiji's father.
(b) Eiji's stepmother.
(c) Mr. Tsuru.
(d) Ai Imajo.

14. Which of the following statements does not describe the unfamiliar house in which Eiji awakens at the beginning of Chapter Five?
(a) It is well-furnished and old fashioned.
(b) A big black dog lives in it.
(c) It has no telephone.
(d) It has no tv.

15. In Eiji's dream at the beginning of Chapter Eight, who is grown-up in the dream?
(a) Yuki Chiyo.
(b) Anju.
(c) Kodai.
(d) Kirara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Monkfish?

2. Why does the person in Eiji's third dream say Anju is not dead?

3. What did the yakuza do to Mrs. Yamaya's son?

4. What does Eiji think of his new job at Nero's Pizza in Chapter Seven?

5. Why does Daimon come to visit Eiji in Chapter Five?

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