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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 Kurata's attitude after he speaks with Asami and finally drinks the last of his coffee?
(a) Defeated.
(b) Wistful.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Irritated.

2. What did Kinuyo give her son when he left for Kyoto?
(a) A letter.
(b) A pocket watch.
(c) Money.
(d) A photograph.

3. Who is Yamagishi Katsura?
(a) The ghost's husband.
(b) A studio potter.
(c) Kyoko's father.
(d) Kazu's boyfriend.

4. What reason does Kyoko give for being so pleased that Kazu has a boyfriend?
(a) Her mother often expressed a wish that Kazu be happily married.
(b) She has often been concerned that Kazu leads a lonely life.
(c) She thinks that Kazu will be a wonderful mother someday.
(d) Her own marriage is her greatest source of happiness.

5. What season does the bell cricket herald?
(a) Summer.
(b) Fall.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gohtaro surmise about the woman who seems to be the girl's mother from her conversation with Nagare?

2. What does Kazu suggest that Kiyoshi should get for his wife's birthday?

3. What does Goro think is probably true about Kurata's meeting with Asami?

4. When Kurata visits the café to clarify the time-travel rules, what question does he ask Kazu that she does not know the answer to?

5. Besides a love of insects, what does the narrator say links Japanese culture to the other culture discussed in the opening of "Mother and Son"?

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