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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter I, "Best Friends" Pages 26-45.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Besides the obvious age differences, what is the only thing that has changed in the café when Gohtero returns to the past?
(a) The sepia light is gone, replaced by strong white light.
(b) The times on the antique clocks are synchronized.
(c) There is traditional music playing in the background.
(d) The customers that were there that day are absent.

2. How old is Kazu?
(a) Nearly twenty-four.
(b) Nearly twenty-two.
(c) Nearly thirty-one.
(d) Nearly twenty-nine.

3. 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.

4. While Gohtaro is fumbling with the camera on page 34, what does Shuichi tell him he still needs to work on?
(a) His "slight of hand."
(b) His "poker face."
(c) His "endgame."
(d) His "closing skills."

5. When Gohtaro was originally in the café, twenty-two years ago, what did he notice about the person sitting in the ghost chair?
(a) The man had spilled his coffee and was looking around for help.
(b) The man seemed to be talking to someone that Gohtaro could not see.
(c) The man was weeping quietly the entire time Gohtaro was in the café.
(d) The man looked like he had time-traveled from the 1920's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gohtaro's daughter's name?

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

3. What are the repetitions of the isolated, bolded words "clang-dong" meant to signify?

4. What language does Miki use a few words from when she comes into the café?

5. Why does Shuichi abruptly shift the conversation to Gohtaro's reasons for coming back into the past?

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