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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. To whom did Eiji's guitar once belong?
2. Who picks up Eiji as he is fleeing the exploding Cadillacs at the beginning of Chapter Five?
3. Where do Ai Imajo and Eiji have breakfast in Chapter Seven?
4. What is the real reason for Suga's drinking binge?
5. Who does Eiji fear will hunt him down once he awakens in the strange house?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Daimon help Eiji's search for his father?
2. Why does Suga get drunk and how does his failure to succeed in his quest parallel Eiji's?
3. Why does Suga take a new job in Texas and what gift does he give Eiji upon departing for his new position?
4. Describe Eiji's dream about John Lennon and Lennon's song "#9 Dream".
5. Why does the second truck driver Eiji rides with in Chapter Eight want to commit suicide and why does he change his mind?
6. Describe Eiji's new job at Nero's pizza.
7. Who is Subaru Tsukiyama and what is his relationship to Eiji?
8. 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?
9. What secrets does Ai Imajo reveal about herself in Chapter Six, and what do her revelations indicate about her changing relationship with Eiji?
10. In Chapter Seven, what plans does Eiji make with his mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Two suicides and one contemplated suicide occur in Number Nine Dream. Discuss Mr. Aoyama's suicide, Subaru Tsukiyama's suicide, and Monkfish's contemplation of suicide. What motivates each of them and what theme(s) or lesson(s) do you think the author is trying to convey through these incidents? Cite examples from the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Number Nine Dream contains a number of instances of foreshadowing. Cite at least three examples of foreshadowing in the novel and explain how it is used to indicate events to come.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Eiji's relationships with his three male friends: Suga, Daimon, and Buntaro. Also, discuss how he meets each of these friends, how they help him and whether he helps any of them, what his relationship with each of them is like, and whether any of the relationships change over the course of the novel.
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