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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. 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.

2. When Buntaro visits Eiji in Chatper Five, who does he say has been looking for Eiji?
(a) Eiji's stepmother.
(b) Mr. Tsuru.
(c) Eiji's father.
(d) Ai Imajo.

3. To whom did Eiji's guitar once belong?
(a) Eiji's grandfather.
(b) Anju.
(c) Eiji's father.
(d) Eiji's mother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who meets Eiji when he is expecting to meet his grandfather instead?

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

3. Which of the following does not describe how Eiji sabotages the yakuza at the end of Chapter Seven?

4. What does Admiral Raizo say Eiji and his grandfather both want?

5. What happens during Eiji's visit with his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Eiji's dream about John Lennon and Lennon's song "#9 Dream".

2. How is the manuscript Eiji finds about Goatwriter an allegory for Eiji's own adventures?

3. What does Mrs. Yamaya's letter in Chapter Seven reveal about her relationship with the yakuza?

4. What is the significance of Eiji's final dream about Anju in which Anju tells him to go away so he will not drown, too?

5. Describe the disagreement between Ai and Eiji at the train station in Chapter Seven.

6. How does Daimon help Eiji's search for his father?

7. After escaping the exploding cars and the yakuza, where does Eiji wake up at the beginning of Chapter Five, and what childhood memories does the place in which he awakens rekindle?

8. Describe Eiji's dream about Mr. Aoyama.

9. Describe Eiji's new job at Nero's pizza.

10. How do Mrs. Sasaki and Buntaro become a substitute family for Eiji in Chapter Five?

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