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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the manager of Mr. Moto's ask Pike and Cole to do after the female bartender has spoken to him?
(a) He asks them to have some free drinks.
(b) He asks them to leave, since they are done eating.
(c) He asks them for identification.
(d) He asks them to stay as long as they like, no questions asked.

2. Who owns an art gallery in Venice on the beach below Santa Monica?
(a) Barbara Kendal.
(b) Berke Feldstein.
(c) Malcolm Denning.
(d) Michael Delacroix.

3. Whom does Cole call once he has entered the office on the catwalk?
(a) Bradley Warren.
(b) Lou Poitras.
(c) Joe Pike.
(d) Sheila Warren.

4. What kind of tee shirt is the cop with whom Cole interacted in the yakitori grill wearing in Chapter Nine?
(a) ZZ Top.
(b) Rambo.
(c) Grateful Dead.
(d) Dirty Harry.

5. What is Sheila's excuse to Cole for not depending upon Hatcher in Chapter Five?
(a) He has poor eyesight.
(b) He is always drunk.
(c) He is too lazy to help.
(d) He could have been clubbed.

6. What doesn't Bradley want the police informed about the theft of the Hagakure?
(a) He believes the police may be in on it.
(b) The insurance would not pay up.
(c) He trusts Cole and only Cole.
(d) It would be bad for business.

7. Who is Hatcher?
(a) Bradley Warren's wife.
(b) The Warrens' security guard.
(c) Bradley Warren's daughter.
(d) An actress from a TV show.

8. Where were the Warrens the night the Hagakure was stolen?
(a) Beverly Hills.
(b) Canada.
(c) Kyoto.
(d) New York.

9. What kind of shirt is the Japanese man who enters the yakatori grill in Chapter Five wearing?
(a) Button-down shirt.
(b) Sweatshirt.
(c) Hawaiian shirt.
(d) Grateful Dead shirt.

10. What does Cole owe Lou Poitras?
(a) A book.
(b) Four dollars.
(c) Lunch.
(d) His life.

11. Who does Sheila think Cole looks like?
(a) Joe Theismann.
(b) Joe Isuzu.
(c) Wyatt Earp.
(d) John Cassavetes.

12. Where does the caller in Chapter Eleven tell Mimi the Hagaku belongs?
(a) In their own hands.
(b) To the spirit of Japan.
(c) To the last Emporer of Japan.
(d) In a bank's safe.

13. When Pike tells Cole that they are the only ones in Mr. Moto's restaurant that look like thugs, whom does Cole say they look like?
(a) Don Johnson and Fred Flintstone.
(b) Denzel Washington and Peter Parker.
(c) Humphrey Bogart and Homer Simpson.
(d) Johnny Depp and Adam West.

14. Who is Michael Denning?
(a) Berke Feldstein's receiptionist.
(b) A UCLA student.
(c) Owner of the Sun Tree Gallery.
(d) Michael Delacroix's representative.

15. What does Mimi ask one of the busboys at the Man of the Month banquet?
(a) Whether she is appropriately dressed.
(b) Where the bathroom is.
(c) How much to tip the waiter.
(d) For a glass of wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Bradley expand Cole's services in Chapter Seven?

2. What can Cole tell about Ellis as soon as he meets the man?

3. Who, according to Cole, would have been proud of the way Sheila looks when she enters the Man of the Month banquet with her husband?

4. With what is Bradley's company involved?

5. What type of house does Nobu Ishida own in Cheviot Hills?

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