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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. How does Kyoko react to Nagare's suggestion about a present for Kiyoshi's wife?
(a) She dismisses it as completely unhelpful.
(b) She praises it effusively, saying she wishes her husband thought like Nagare.
(c) She politely suggests a slight improvement in the plan.
(d) She laughs and tells Nagare he does not understand women.

2. What is Kiyoshi Manda's job?
(a) Emergency room physician.
(b) Social worker.
(c) Homicide detective.
(d) Firefighter.

3. What question does Kazu ask Yukio that he refuses to answer?
(a) Why he did not attend his mother's funeral.
(b) Whether he intends to leave anything behind in the past.
(c) Whether he is angry at Kyoko for keeping Kinuyo's illness a secret.
(d) Why he wants to travel into the past.

4. Which is the best description of Kazu's appearance?
(a) Intriguingly exotic.
(b) Pretty but nondescript.
(c) Strikingly beautiful.
(d) Youthful and unformed.

5. Which of the story's motifs is introduced by the Christmas tree and the extra item that Nagare adds to Kyoko's order?
(a) Analytical thinking.
(b) Missed chances.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Bereavement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Fumiko when she calls Kurata while he is in the café?

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

3. What sound does the story end with?

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

5. What illness did Yukio contract when he was two years old?

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