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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 strange things does Ai say are happening in Tokyo when she and Eiji talk by telephone at the end of Chapter Eight?
(a) The rain is yellow.
(b) Pigeons are flying into buildings and cars.
(c) It is snowing in summer.
(d) The temperature has dropped noticeably.

2. Who is Goatwriter?
(a) Buntaro's brother.
(b) One of the yakuza men.
(c) A computer hacker at Ueno Station.
(d) A goat and lead character in the book Eiji finds and reads.

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

4. Which of the following does not describe what Eiji finds when he finally meets his father?
(a) His father argues via telephone with his stepmother.
(b) Eiji's father hugs him and arranges to meet him regularly.
(c) His father orders a pizza which Eiji delivers.
(d) Eiji leaves without revealing who he is.

5. What does Suga succeed in doing in Chapter Seven?
(a) Getting a new girlfriend.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Hacking the Pentagon computer, his Holy Grail.
(d) Getting a raise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in Tokyo at the end of the book?

2. Who responds to Eiji's personal ad in the newspaper?

3. Who picks up Eiji as he is fleeing the exploding Cadillacs at the beginning of Chapter Five?

4. Who is expecting a baby in Chapter Six?

5. What was Subaru Tsukiyama's profession?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What secrets does Ai Imajo reveal about herself in Chapter Six, and what do her revelations indicate about her changing relationship with Eiji?

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. As he learns about Subaru Tsukiyama's life, what insights does Eiji begin to get about his own life?

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

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