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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 Subaru Tsukiyama's relationship to Eiji?
(a) He is Eiji's father.
(b) He is Eiji's great-uncle, the brother of Eiji's grandfather.
(c) He is Eiji's half-brother.
(d) He is Eiji's grandfather.

2. What is Eiji's fourth dream in Chapter Eight about?
(a) His father and stepmother.
(b) Yoko Ono.
(c) Anju and her death.
(d) John Lennon and his song #9 Dream.

3. Who meets Eiji when he is expecting to meet his grandfather instead?
(a) His grandfather's attorney.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) His stepmother and half-sister.

4. 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.

5. What does Eiji think of his new job at Nero's Pizza in Chapter Seven?
(a) His coworkers are mean.
(b) The kitchen is hot and cramped, but the work is easy.
(c) The hours are too long.
(d) He hates it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Five, how much time has lapsed since Eiji first left his village to come to Tokyo in search of his father?

2. Which of the following is not part of the story that Monkfish relates to Eiji?

3. Why is Ogre not married?

4. Who sends Eiji a postcard in Chapter Five?

5. Who is Eiji's third dream in Chapter Eight about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is the earthquake in Tokyo at the end of Number Nine Dream real or fantasy?

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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