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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Chapter IV, "Husband and Wife".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sings a song about crickets in the opening of "Mother and Son"?
(a) Miki.
(b) Nagare.
(c) Kyoko.
(d) Kazu.

2. Who is the source of most of Kiyoshi's information about the people who have traveled back in time in the café?
(a) Miki.
(b) Kazu.
(c) Kinuyo.
(d) Kyoko.

3. What sound does the story end with?
(a) Coffee brewing.
(b) The clocks chiming.
(c) Miki singing.
(d) A cricket chirping.

4. Why is Nagare confused by Kiyoshi's desire to return to the past?
(a) Nagare does not know that Kiyoshi's wife is deceased.
(b) Kiyoshi's religion explicitly forbids anything related to magic.
(c) Kiyoshi has never wanted to give his wife a gift before.
(d) Nagare is surprised that a detective would believe in time travel.

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 seemed to be talking to someone that Gohtaro could not see.
(b) The man had spilled his coffee and was looking around for help.
(c) The man looked like he had time-traveled from the 1920's.
(d) The man was weeping quietly the entire time Gohtaro was in the café.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wish does Miki write on the tanzaku paper at the beginning of the story?

2. Where is the time-traveling café located?

3. How old was Yukio when he accepted the wholesaler's offer?

4. Whose is Kiyoshi referencing when he talks about the dying man who travels into the future?

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"?

(see the answer key)

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