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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shuichi do just before urging Gohtaro to get started with the recording?
(a) Gets up to go to the restroom again.
(b) Whispers something to himself.
(c) Blows his nose and wipes away his tears.
(d) Feels Gohtaro's coffee cup.

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

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

4. In what modern kind of text does the narrator explore the use of onomatopoeia and mimetic language?
(a) Movies.
(b) Pop songs.
(c) Comics.
(d) Video games.

5. What can the reader infer from the conversation between Nagare and the woman who seems to be the girl's mother?
(a) Nagare was not the owner of the café twenty-two years ago.
(b) Miki is Nagare's adopted daughter.
(c) Mrs. Kinuyo used to have a much more active role in running the café.
(d) Kyoko has been coming to the café since she was a child.

6. What amuses Kazu and Kyoko about Miki's backpack?
(a) Miki has decorated it with drawings of anime characters.
(b) It is a color traditionally not worn by small children.
(c) Miki is wearing it even though school is not yet in session.
(d) Miki is wearing it upside-down and backwards.

7. What did Gohtaro and his friend notice about the young man who ran the cash register at the café?
(a) His height.
(b) His smile.
(c) His eye color.
(d) His rough hands.

8. What is Shuichi's primary response to seeing the camera that Gohtaro has brought with him?
(a) Shuichi is suspicious about Gohtaro wanting to record him.
(b) Shuichi is jealous that Gohtaro can afford such things.
(c) Shuichi is impressed with the technology.
(d) Shuichi refuses to believe that the object is a camera.

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

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

11. When Gohtaro returns to the present, what is the first thing that he wants to do?
(a) Find out from Kazu who Kaname really is.
(b) Thank Nagare for saving him twice during his journey into the past.
(c) Get out of the ghost chair before Kaname returns.
(d) Check the recording of Shuichi to make sure it was not all a dream.

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

13. What is Kyoko's younger brother's name?
(a) Akihito.
(b) Yukio.
(c) Haruto.
(d) Masaru.

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

15. In her lyrics on page 56, to what does Miki compare Nagare?
(a) A barnyard smell.
(b) A sputtering kettle.
(c) A long fall night.
(d) A farting insect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the time-traveling café?

2. Where did Kazu meet the man who is now her boyfriend?

3. Whom does the narrative compare to "a sentry guarding a castle" (28)?

4. Where is the woman that Gohtaro thinks is the young girl's mother taking the child?

5. What season does the bell cricket herald?

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