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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) At the PanOpticon building.
(b) At the Jupiter Cafe.
(c) In Buntaro's video store.
(d) In the cab of another truck.

2. What was Subaru Tsukiyama's profession?
(a) He was a physician.
(b) He was the suicide pilot of a kaiten, or manned torpedo.
(c) He was a banker.
(d) He was a lawyer.

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

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

5. What did the yakuza do to Mrs. Yamaya?
(a) They made her steal for them.
(b) They made her sell drugs for them.
(c) They made her an assassin.
(d) They made her a slave because of her husband's debts.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Six, what does Ai Imajo confide to Eiji?

2. Where do Ai Imajo and Eiji have breakfast in Chapter Seven?

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

4. Why does Eiji miss his six o'clock visitor?

5. Who is Mrs. Comb?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how Eiji gets a new job in Chapter Six.

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

4. In Chapter Five, from whom does Eiji receive a postcard, and how does the card indicate a shift in the writer's attitude toward Eiji?

5. How does Eiji's relationship with Ai Imajo change in Chapter Five?

6. Why does the second truck driver Eiji rides with in Chapter Eight want to commit suicide and why does he change his mind?

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. How does Eiji's grandfather show that he approves of Eiji?

9. Why does Suga take a new job in Texas and what gift does he give Eiji upon departing for his new position?

10. Who is Subaru Tsukiyama and what is his relationship to Eiji?

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