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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ai Imajo offer to buy Eiji when they meet for breakfast in Chapter Seven?
(a) Dinner.
(b) A new baseball cap.
(c) A new cat.
(d) Tickets to a baseball game.

2. Who does Eiji's grandfather pretend to be when he meets Eiji?
(a) Admiral Raizo, an old family friend.
(b) His grandfather's physician.
(c) His grandfather's attorney.
(d) His grandfather's financial adviser.

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

4. Who is Ogre?
(a) A coworker at Nero's.
(b) A yakuza assassin.
(c) The driver of the truck in which Eiji is riding.
(d) Eiji's cousin.

5. Who picks up Eiji as he is fleeing the exploding Cadillacs at the beginning of Chapter Five?
(a) Suga.
(b) Buntaro.
(c) Ryutaro Morino.
(d) Mr. Tsuru.

6. In Chapter Five, who faxes Eiji a message that he is coming to visit at six o'clock?
(a) Eiji's father.
(b) Suga.
(c) Buntaro.
(d) Daimon.

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

8. Why has Mrs. Yamaya not been able to get the authorities to make use of the data she has gathered about the yakuza?
(a) The yakuza are blackmailing her.
(b) The data is hidden in a place guarded by the yakuza.
(c) The yakuza own the police and politicians.
(d) She is in hiding.

9. Who offers Eiji a job at Nero's pizza?
(a) Ai Imajo's roommate, Sachiko Sera.
(b) Daimon.
(c) Mrs. Sasaki.
(d) Ai Imajo.

10. What happens in Tokyo at the end of the book?
(a) A flood.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) The Olympic games are held there.
(d) A fire.

11. Where does Eiji find himself when he wakes up after his second dream in Chapter Eight?
(a) At the PanOpticon building.
(b) In the cab of another truck.
(c) In Buntaro's video store.
(d) At the Jupiter Cafe.

12. What does Suga give Eiji before he leaves for his new job?
(a) A gold watch.
(b) A John Lennon DVD.
(c) His finest computer virus.
(d) A photo of himself.

13. In Chapter Six, what does Ai Imajo confide to Eiji?
(a) That she's diabetic and shoots herself with insulin.
(b) That she knows who Eiji's father is.
(c) That she is on the run from an abusive husband.
(d) That she loves Eiji.

14. How long after his meeting with Admiral Raizo is Eiji supposed to meet his grandfather?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) Seven days.
(c) One month.
(d) One year.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter Six, where does Eiji go to meet his grandfather?

2. Who is Pithecanthropus?

3. In what does Subaru Tsukiyama find his life's meaning?

4. Which of the following does not describe what Eiji finds when he finally meets his father?

5. When Eiji wakes up in a strange house after his night of terror with the yakuza, what childhood memory does it rekindle?

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