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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. What does Gohtaro notice hanging on the café wall?
(a) Paintings of ghosts.
(b) Antique clocks.
(c) A large hourglass.
(d) A metronome.

2. What is Kazu's relationship to Miki's father?
(a) They are married.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) They are business partners.
(d) They are siblings.

3. What causes most potential customers to lose interest in the café's ability to send people back in time?
(a) They do not have the patience to wait as long as necessary for the time-traveling seat to be available.
(b) They realize that they will not be able to follow all of the café's rules.
(c) They find that the hidden cost of going back in time is too much to bear.
(d) They are disappointed that they will not be able to change anything about the present.

4. 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) Check the recording of Shuichi to make sure it was not all a dream.
(c) Get out of the ghost chair before Kaname returns.
(d) Thank Nagare for saving him twice during his journey into the past.

5. What sport did Gohtaro and Shuichi play together in college?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Rugby.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Gohtaro been lying to his daughter?

2. What reason does Kyoko give for being so pleased that Kazu has a boyfriend?

3. Who sings a song about crickets in the opening of "Mother and Son"?

4. What does Gohtaro surmise about the woman who seems to be the girl's mother from her conversation with Nagare?

5. Where did Haruka meet Satoshi Obi?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Gohtaro tells Shuichi, "Haruka has decided to get married," how does the narrator explain Shuichi's reaction, and what does the reader later learn is the real reason for his reaction?

2. Before Gohtaro goes into the past, what is his plan to deal with the revelations that will occur upon Haruka's marriage?

3. What does Kyoko reveal about her brother's reaction to their mother's death?

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

5. How does the exchange between Kyoko and Kazu about Kazu's boyfriend characterize both women?

6. How did Shuichi's and Gohtaro's lives take different paths after college?

7. Why is Kyoko not interested in using the café's time-traveling service to go back in time to try to fix the problem with her brother?

8. Which characteristics of Shuichi's give Gohtaro "grounds for faith" that Shuichi will quickly understand that Gohtaro has traveled back in time (31)?

9. What warning does Kazu give Gohtaro about remembering to drink his coffee?

10. What details at the beginning of the story convey to the reader that Kyoto is a regular customer at the café?

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