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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the postcard Eiji receives ask him to do?
(a) Stop trying to find his father.
(b) Burn his mother's last letter.
(c) Come for a visit.
(d) Forgive his mother for all her mistakes.

2. Who is expecting a baby in Chapter Six?
(a) Buntaro's wife.
(b) Mrs. Sasaki.
(c) Miriam.
(d) Eiji's mother.

3. What is the real reason for Suga's drinking binge?
(a) He misses Eiji.
(b) The yakuza are after him.
(c) He is an alcoholic.
(d) The Holy Grail quest of hacking the Pentagon computer.

4. In Chapter Seven, where is Suga going to take a new job?
(a) New York.
(b) Nagasaki.
(c) London.
(d) Texas.

5. When Eiji wakes up from his initial dream in Chapter Eight, where does he find himself?
(a) In Ai Imajo's apartment.
(b) In the cab of a truck.
(c) At his mother's clinic.
(d) At the Jupiter Cafe.

6. 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 get a loan from his bank to pay the rent.
(b) That Eiji run the video store while Buntaro goes on vacation.
(c) That Eiji find a new place to live.
(d) That Eiji not worry about rent until he finds a new job.

7. Which of the following is not part of the story that Monkfish relates to Eiji?
(a) Monkfish killed his ex-girlfriend.
(b) Monkfish dreamed his lover killed herself.
(c) Monkfish loved a girl whose family disapproved of him.
(d) Monkfish wanted to kill himself over his love.

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

9. When his mother phones him, what does Eiji say to her?
(a) That he never wants to hear from her again.
(b) That he wants to come see her.
(c) That she is responsible for Anju's death.
(d) That she is crazy and needs therapy.

10. What have the pregnant woman in Chapter Six and her husband decided to name their coming baby?
(a) Tunimoka.
(b) Lasami.
(c) Jalaya.
(d) Kodai.

11. What strange things does Ai say are happening in Tokyo when she and Eiji talk by telephone at the end of Chapter Eight?
(a) The rain is yellow.
(b) Pigeons are flying into buildings and cars.
(c) The temperature has dropped noticeably.
(d) It is snowing in summer.

12. What does Ai Imajo tell Eiji in Chapter Eight that she saw him throw away before he left Tokyo to meet his mother?
(a) His old baseball cap.
(b) His old, faded blue jeans.
(c) His cigarettes.
(d) His karate DVDs.

13. What does Admiral Raizo say Eiji and his grandfather both want?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Respect.
(c) The love of Eiji's father.
(d) A happy family life.

14. Who is Monkfish?
(a) Ai Imajo's brother.
(b) The driver of the second truck in which Eiji rides.
(c) Buntaro's brother.
(d) The boyfriend of Eiji's mother.

15. Which of the following is not a reason Eiji's stepmother gives for why Eiji's father does not want to meet him?
(a) Eiji's father is ill and in the hospital.
(b) His father considers Eiji a reminder of his worst mistake.
(c) His father wants to preserve his privacy.
(d) His father is ashamed of Eiji's illegitimacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Eiji call to share the good news about the response to his newspaper ad?

2. What is Subaru Tsukiyama's relationship to Eiji?

3. What does Ai Imajo offer to buy Eiji when they meet for breakfast in Chapter Seven?

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

5. Which of the following is not a reason Mrs. Yamaya has sent information about yakuza activities to Eiji?

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