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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Subaru Tsukiyama's relationship to Eiji?
(a) He is Eiji's half-brother.
(b) He is Eiji's great-uncle, the brother of Eiji's grandfather.
(c) He is Eiji's father.
(d) He is Eiji's grandfather.

2. Why does the person in Eiji's third dream say Anju is not dead?
(a) Because she was kidnapped.
(b) Because life is eternal.
(c) Because Eiji won't let her die.
(d) Because her death was a dream.

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 gun.
(c) A dead body.
(d) Mrs. Sasaki's old love letters.

4. Who is Goatwriter?
(a) Buntaro's brother.
(b) One of the yakuza men.
(c) A goat and lead character in the book Eiji finds and reads.
(d) A computer hacker at Ueno Station.

5. What have the yakuza done to Mrs. Yamaya because of her attempts to use the information she has gathered about their activities?
(a) They have blackmailed her.
(b) They have murdered her.
(c) They have taken her hostage.
(d) They have cut off her hand.

6. What does Eiji think of his new job at Nero's Pizza in Chapter Seven?
(a) He hates it.
(b) His coworkers are mean.
(c) The hours are too long.
(d) The kitchen is hot and cramped, but the work is easy.

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

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

9. 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 financial adviser.
(d) His grandfather's attorney.

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

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

12. Who is Mrs. Yamaya?
(a) Eiji's stepmother.
(b) Morino's detective, who compiled the file on Eiji's father.
(c) A prospective employer for Eiji.
(d) Eiji's stepsister.

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

14. Which of the following does not describe how Eiji sabotages the yakuza at the end of Chapter Seven?
(a) He sends Mrs. Yamaya's data to theTokyo police.
(b) He uses Suga's computer virus.
(c) He bombs Mr. Tsuru's car.
(d) He attaches Mrs. Yamaya's data on the yakuza to the virus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Eiji's guitar once belong?

2. Which of the following statements does not describe the unfamiliar house in which Eiji awakens at the beginning of Chapter Five?

3. Which of the following is not a reason Eiji's stepmother gives for why Eiji's father does not want to meet him?

4. What did the yakuza do to Mrs. Yamaya?

5. What fact is Eiji surprised to learn about the identity of Mrs. Sasaki, his boss at Ueno Station?

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