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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter II, "Mother and Son" Pages 65-81.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What detail does the narrator offer about the wholesaler that foreshadows his eventual disappearance?
(a) He does not pay his bills on time.
(b) His business is newly established.
(c) No one in Kyoto has heard of him before.
(d) He complains of large debts.

2. Whom does Yukio call when he goes outside?
(a) Kyoko.
(b) His landlord.
(c) His bank.
(d) Yamagishi.

3. What similarity is there between Kazu's approach to art and her approach to customers at the café?
(a) They are both spontaneous.
(b) They are both objective.
(c) They are both analytical.
(d) They are both intuitive.

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

5. Who convinces Gohtaro to finally go inside the café?
(a) The cook.
(b) The owner.
(c) The waitress.
(d) A regular customer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Nagare?

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

3. When he is in the past, what sound startles Yukio just as he is beginning to relax and feel sleepy?

4. What is Kyoko's brother's reaction when Kazu mentions his mother's name?

5. What is Kiyoshi Manda's job?

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