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

2. 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 thinks that Kazu will be a wonderful mother someday.
(c) Her own marriage is her greatest source of happiness.
(d) She has often been concerned that Kazu leads a lonely life.

3. What is the woman in white doing when Gohtaro is talking with Kyoko and Kazu?
(a) Reading a book.
(b) Clearing tables.
(c) Polishing glasses.
(d) Drinking tea.

4. On page 36, as soon as Gohtaro presses the record button, what does Shuichi say?
(a) "Don't worry, everything's okay."
(b) "You know...you've always been a terrible liar."
(c) "To Haruka, twenty-two years from now."
(d) "This is very strange, Gohtaro."

5. Where did Kazu meet the man who is now her boyfriend?
(a) Mrs. Kinuyo's house.
(b) Art school.
(c) The café.
(d) The grocery store.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Kinuyo enter the café when Yukio is in the past?

2. How were Shuichi and his wife killed?

3. What is implied when the narrator says that, upon hearing of his mother's death, Yukio "heard a tautly stretched string snapping inside his head" (66)?

4. What detail does the narrator offer about the wholesaler that foreshadows his eventual disappearance?

5. What is Kurata's attitude after he speaks with Asami and finally drinks the last of his coffee?

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