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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 are the repetitions of the isolated, bolded words "clang-dong" meant to signify?
(a) The sound of a clock chiming as the hours pass.
(b) The sound of the cook's bell signaling that an order is ready.
(c) The bell on the café door as people enter and leave.
(d) The ringer on the cell phone of the regular sitting at the counter.

2. Why does Kiyoshi feel unsure about what to get his wife for her birthday?
(a) Their marriage is recent, and he does not know her very well yet.
(b) He has never bought her a birthday present before.
(c) She has told him many times that she does not need presents from him.
(d) She is a notoriously picky person, with eccentric tastes.

3. Where did Haruka meet Satoshi Obi?
(a) On the bus.
(b) Culinary school.
(c) At a health club.
(d) Gohtaro's restaurant.

4. When Yukio apologizes to his mother and asks for her forgiveness, what is he responding to?
(a) Kinuyo knows her son has been lying to her about his success.
(b) Kinuyo would suffer deeply should Yukio choose not return to the future.
(c) Kinuyo would be less lonely should Yukio choose to stay in the past with her.
(d) Kinuyo knows she is about to die and that Yukio is not trying to prevent this.

5. What is unusual about the coffee that Kazu pours for Gohtaro?
(a) It is clear, like water.
(b) It sparkles as if it has its own light source.
(c) It does not appear to be moving.
(d) It has a strong scent of cherry blossoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gohtaro travels into the past, what does the reader realize about the young man whom Gohtaro and Shuichi thought should be a rugby player?

2. In what modern kind of text does the narrator explore the use of onomatopoeia and mimetic language?

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

4. What kind of dancer does the narrator compare Kazu to as she pours the coffee?

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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