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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 grandfather.
(b) He is Eiji's father.
(c) He is Eiji's half-brother.
(d) He is Eiji's great-uncle, the brother of Eiji's grandfather.

2. What fact is Eiji surprised to learn about the identity of Mrs. Sasaki, his boss at Ueno Station?
(a) She is his stepmother.
(b) She is one of his stepsisters.
(c) She knows his father.
(d) She is Buntaro's mother.

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

4. Why does the person in Eiji's third dream say Anju is not dead?
(a) Because Eiji won't let her die.
(b) Because life is eternal.
(c) Because her death was a dream.
(d) Because she was kidnapped.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gives Ai Imajo's life meaning?

2. What did the yakuza do to Mrs. Yamaya?

3. Who is Goatwriter?

4. 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?

5. Which of the following is not a way the yakuza trick Eiji in Chapter Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, what plans does Eiji make with his mother?

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

3. Explain who Mrs. Yamaya is and describe her visit with Eiji.

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

5. How does Eiji finally get to meet his father, and how does he feel after the meeting?

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

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

8. How do Mrs. Sasaki and Buntaro become a substitute family for Eiji in Chapter Five?

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. 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?

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