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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. Why does Mrs. Sasaki tell Eiji not to return to his job at Ueno Station?
(a) The yakuza or police might be looking for him there.
(b) She has a better job for him elsewhere.
(c) He has been fired.
(d) They closed the station after Mr. Aoyama's suicide.

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

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

4. In Chapter Six, who does Eiji phone with increasing frequency?
(a) Daimon.
(b) Ai Imajo.
(c) Buntaro.
(d) Miriam.

5. What does Ai Imajo offer to buy Eiji when they meet for breakfast in Chapter Seven?
(a) Tickets to a baseball game.
(b) A new cat.
(c) A new baseball cap.
(d) Dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. When his mother phones him, what does Eiji say to her?

2. What does Suga succeed in doing in Chapter Seven?

3. What does the postcard Eiji receives ask him to do?

4. What is Subaru Tsukiyama's relationship to Eiji?

5. In Chapter Six, what tale does Suga give as the reason for his emotional distress when he shows up drunk one night while Eiji is working?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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