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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. Why have Daimon and Eiji been kidnapped?
(a) Because of their involvement with Miriam, Morino's girlfriend.
(b) Because they didn't pay their bill at the Queen of Spades.
(c) Because Eiji's father is a yakuza leader.
(d) Because the yakuza thinks they stole yakuza money.

2. Instead of confronting Akiko, how does Eiji spend most of his afternoon in Chapter One?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Daydreaming and watching the cafe customers and staff.
(c) Drinking at a bar.
(d) Gambling at the race track.

3. With whom do eleven-year-old Anju and Eiji live?
(a) Their grandmother.
(b) Their mother.
(c) Their uncle.
(d) Their father and stepmother.

4. Which of the following does not describe what happens to Daimon after the yakuza release him?
(a) Eiji has Buntaro put him in Eiji's apartment.
(b) He is weak because the yakuza drained his blood.
(c) He dies.
(d) Eiji puts him in a taxi.

5. Before leaving the video arcade in Chapter Three, with whom does Eiji get into a brief discussion?
(a) Suga.
(b) Mr. Aoyama.
(c) A slightly older Tokyo native waiting for his date.
(d) Buntaro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What person does Eiji decide to meet virtually in the video game Virtua Sapiens?

2. When Eiji searches for the file folder about his father, who does he see playing the piano for the opening of another part of the entertainment complex where the yakuza are?

3. Who is Akiko Kato?

4. On whose cell phone conversation does Eiji eavesdrop?

5. What errand does the attractive waitress leave to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Cat and what does Eiji's relationship with her indicate?

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

3. Why do Donkey and Dowager call the waitress with the perfect neck a "hand cream model", and what does the depiction of the girl's hands in Chapter One really indicate?

4. Why does Eiji decapitate the statue of the thunder god in his village shrine?

5. How does Eiji escape death at the end of Chapter Four?

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

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

8. Who kidnaps Eiji in Chapter Four and why is Eiji kidnapped?

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

10. 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?

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