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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) Intelligence.
(b) Looks.
(c) Humor.
(d) Complexity.

2. Who punishes Shinsuke for being smart?
(a) His parents.
(b) His siblings.
(c) His teachers.
(d) His school friends.

3. What does Yasuckichi have to write for Lieutenant Honda?
(a) A biography.
(b) A poem.
(c) A report.
(d) An eulogy.

4. What does the critic call Yasukichi's writings?
(a) Ramblings of a genuis.
(b) Spare-time jottings.
(c) Dull and techically awful.
(d) Over-wroght.

5. What does the author say he wants someone to do to him?
(a) Shoot him.
(b) Strangle the life from him.
(c) Hold him.
(d) Tell him nice things.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what mood does the author's wife arrive home in?

2. What does the author's wife say she has had a premonition about?

3. What kind style story is Spinning Gears?

4. What kind of life does Xiao-er say he would live if he had a second chance?

5. What does Hanzaburo tell his wife to do to stop his legs from kicking?

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