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

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

3. What quality is conveyed by the "sepia" lighting in the café?
(a) The café is a cheerful place.
(b) The café is dirty and run-down.
(c) The café might be dangerous.
(d) The café seems very old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes most potential customers to lose interest in the café's ability to send people back in time?

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

3. What is unusual about the coffee that Kazu pours for Gohtaro?

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

5. What does Kazu refuse to allow Kyoko to pay for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the juxtaposition of the made-up lyrics to Miki's song with Kyoko's emotions after her confession about her brother highlight Kyoko's distress?

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

5. 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?

6. What has fatherhood been like for Gohtaro?

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

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

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

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

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