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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spinning Gears.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Shinsuke's primary factor in determining whether someone is his friend?
(a) Humor.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Complexity.
(d) Looks.

2. What does the author apologize for at the beginning of the story?
(a) That he may may make the reader feel sick.
(b) That such an ordinary man is the protaganist.
(c) That he he has to tell such a tired tale.
(d) That his memory is not the best.

3. What painter does Akutagawa talk about?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Van Gogh.
(d) Munch.

4. What does Akutagawa think is imminent?
(a) An illness.
(b) His death.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) War.

5. What happens when Kandata yells at the other climbers?
(a) They throw stones at him.
(b) His tongue falls out.
(c) His hands begin to burn.
(d) He falls back down to hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is it claimed Sato was brought back to life?

2. Whose obituary is printed at the end of the story?

3. What does Shinsuke say his parents fake?

4. What kind of fake flower does O-Kimi have in her apartment?

5. What does the servant think he can do to survive?

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