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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Eiji come to realize about the word "Father" in the strange messages he receives that Father is watching him?
(a) It refers to a female yakuza leader.
(b) It refers to a priest with ties to the yakuza.
(c) It refers to Daimon's father.
(d) It means a yakuza leader rather than his birth father.

4. Who saves Eiji's life at the end of Chapter Four when bombs explode, killing the warring yakuza factions?
(a) Buntaro.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Daimon.
(d) A double agent, working for Mr. Tsuru, the former boss.

5. What does Anju learn about her mother when she accidentally overhears some local women talking in Mrs. Tanaka's store?
(a) Her mother abandoned her and Eiji to pursue men.
(b) Her mother committed suicide.
(c) Her mother is a drug addict.
(d) Her mother died in a car wreck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What video game is Eiji playing at the beginning of Chapter Three?

2. What draws Eiji's attention to one of the waitresses?

3. Which of the following is not something Eiji has to convince his kidnapper of in order to be released?

4. Who is Buntaro?

5. At the beginning of Chapter Two, what does Eiji think has happened to Cat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eiji's defense in Chapter Three of Ai Imajo, the waitress with the perfect neck at the Jupiter Cafe, affect his developing relationship with Ai?

2. What does Eiji's helping Daimon after the yakuza injure Daimon indicate about Eiji's character?

3. What is the significance of the third person viewpoint in the scenes describing Eiji's first drug experience and his experience with Velvet?

4. How does Eiji's experience with Daimon on his twentieth birthday illustrate his naivety?

5. Describe Eiji's habit of nicknaming people.

6. Describe Eiji's coworkers at Ueno Station and his relationships with them.

7. What happens to Mr. Aoyama in Chapter Two?

8. How does the video game Virtua Sapiens relate to Eiji's quest for his father?

9. What does Eiji's fantasy about masquerading as an aquarium cleaner to meet Akako Kato reveal about his character?

10. Why does the structure of Chapter One switch back and forth between fantasy and reality so often, making it difficult to tell the difference between the two?

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