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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Kazu tell Miki she will be old enough to pour the coffee?
(a) When she is seven.
(b) When she is twelve.
(c) When she is twenty-two.
(d) When she is seventeen.

2. What can the reader infer from the conversation between Nagare and the woman who seems to be the girl's mother?
(a) Miki is Nagare's adopted daughter.
(b) Nagare was not the owner of the café twenty-two years ago.
(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.

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

4. What is an "onomatopoeic expression" (47)?
(a) One that imitates the sound of the thing it names.
(b) One that conveys a comparison indirectly.
(c) One that conveys emphasis by understating a feeling.
(d) One that imitates a feeling generated by the thing it names.

5. What is a "mimetic expression" (47)?
(a) One that imitates a feeling generated by the thing it names.
(b) One that conveys a comparison indirectly.
(c) One that imitates the sound of the thing it names.
(d) One that conveys emphasis by understating a feeling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language does Miki use a few words from when she comes into the café?

2. Why does Shuichi abruptly shift the conversation to Gohtaro's reasons for coming back into the past?

3. Why does Nagare ask Gohtaro if something is wrong with his coffee?

4. How old is Kazu?

5. What is Kyoko's reaction to Kazu asking about her brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What item does Kazu offer the ghost, and how do her emotions change during this encounter?

2. Why does the narrator use vague language to describe the tears falling during the encounter between Shuichi and Gohtaro?

3. What reason does the narrator give for Kiyoshi asking his question of the café staff?

4. Why does Gohtaro want to travel to the past?

5. Which element of Gohtaro and Shuichi's relationship in college foreshadows their relationship outside of college?

6. How does the subject of Kyoko's son Yohsuke come up in conversation?

7. How did Kyoko end up becoming a regular at the café, and why does her son not come with her anymore?

8. What causes the narrator to suggest that Kyoko might be thinking, "Saved by Miki" when Kyoko suddenly bursts out laughing on page 53?

9. What has fatherhood been like for Gohtaro?

10. Why does Kazu sound stern when she tells Gohtaro, "You know that even if your return to the past, reality won't change, right?" (13)?

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