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

2. What gives Ai Imajo's life meaning?
(a) Her family.
(b) Romance.
(c) Music.
(d) Her job.

3. As he reflects on Anju's death and what gives his life meaning, what does Eiji begin to think about his search for his father?
(a) He should increase his devotion to his quest.
(b) It might not be as important as he has previously believed.
(c) He should give up his quest.
(d) It is what gives his life meaning.

4. What action does Eiji take after receiving the address from Daimon?
(a) He goes to the address in person.
(b) He hires a personal detective to go to the address.
(c) He sends Buntaro to check out the address.
(d) He writes the detecting asking for help locating his father.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why has Mrs. Yamaya not been able to get the authorities to make use of the data she has gathered about the yakuza?

3. Who sets Eiji free from the yakuza and saves his life in Chapter Seven?

4. When Eiji wakes up in a strange house after his night of terror with the yakuza, what childhood memory does it rekindle?

5. Who is Mrs. Yamaya?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who meets Eiji at the Amadeus Tea Room instead of his grandfather on the day of his second meeting with the older man, and why does his grandfather not meet him then as planned?

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

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

8. Why is the Nero's delivery truck driver with whom Eiji rides in Chapter Eight alone in his life instead of married?

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

10. Why is Eiji's grandfather disappointed in Eiji's father?

(see the answer keys)

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