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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter III, "Lovers".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "mimetic expression" (47)?
(a) One that conveys emphasis by understating a feeling.
(b) One that conveys a comparison indirectly.
(c) One that imitates a feeling generated by the thing it names.
(d) One that imitates the sound of the thing it names.

2. Why does Kazu especially enjoy the café after closing?
(a) She knows that it means she will be back home soon.
(b) She takes pride in cleaning and straightening the café.
(c) She is not much of a "people person."
(d) She likes to work quietly without thinking.

3. What is the first thing that Shuichi wants to know once he understands that Gohtaro has come from the future?
(a) How many years in the future Gohtaro came from.
(b) Whether something has happened to his daughter, Haruka.
(c) Whether time travel works in the opposite direction.
(d) What time travel does to a person's body and if Gohtaro feels okay.

4. What illness was Kurata diagnosed with two-and-a-half years previously?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Liver failure.
(c) Heart failure.
(d) Tuberculosis.

5. How does Miki address Kazu when she asks Kazu about changing her name if she gets married?
(a) Little Sister.
(b) Mademoiselle.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Mistress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Kazu meet the man who is now her boyfriend?

2. Whom does Gohtaro think that the woman who seems to be the young girl's mother looks very like?

3. What new café rule does the reader learn about in "Mother and Son"?

4. What does Kyoko believe about her brother not attending their mother's funeral?

5. What wish does Miki write on the tanzaku paper at the beginning of the story?

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