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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 new café rule does the reader learn about in "Mother and Son"?
(a) People in the past cannot be photographed by ordinary cameras.
(b) People in the past cannot accept physical objects from time-travelers.
(c) There is no way to slow the cooling of the coffee.
(d) There is no way to control where in the past a time-traveler ends up.

2. 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"?
(a) Traditional foods.
(b) Language features.
(c) Pottery techniques.
(d) Traditional etiquette.

3. What language does Miki use a few words from when she comes into the café?
(a) French.
(b) Gaelic.
(c) Italian.
(d) Swahili.

4. What is the first thing that Shuichi wants to know once he understands that Gohtaro has come from the future?
(a) Whether time travel works in the opposite direction.
(b) What time travel does to a person's body and if Gohtaro feels okay.
(c) Whether something has happened to his daughter, Haruka.
(d) How many years in the future Gohtaro came from.

5. Besides Japanese culture, which other culture does the narrator say is especially fond of insects?
(a) Polynesian.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Korean.
(d) Indonesian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the expression "in a pickle" mean (32)?

2. What is the woman in white doing when Gohtaro is talking with Kyoko and Kazu?

3. What does Gohtaro notice about the young girl in the café when he travels back in time?

4. How old is Kazu?

5. What kind of drawing does Kazu specialize in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the rules of the time-traveling café?

5. What happens to Gohtaro physically when Kazu pours the coffee?

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

7. How did Gohtaro end up raising Shuichi's daughter?

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

9. What rule of time traveling in the café does Gohtaro almost immediately break when he returns to the past, and who saves him from this error?

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

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