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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 lie does Gohtaro tell Shuichi about his reason for coming into the past?
(a) He claims that he was curious to try traveling through time.
(b) He claims that future-Shuichi asked him to do it.
(c) He claims that Haruka wanted to be sure her birth father knew about her wedding.
(d) He claims that he simply wanted advice from an old friend.

2. Why does Gohtaro hesitate to enter the café?
(a) He is not sure that he wants his daughter to know the truth.
(b) He is not sure that the stories about the café are true.
(c) He is afraid that seeing his old friend will be too sad.
(d) He is afraid that going back in time will be dangerous.

3. Why does Shuichi abruptly shift the conversation to Gohtaro's reasons for coming back into the past?
(a) He is aware that their time together is short.
(b) He is alarmed by Gohtaro's tears.
(c) He is uncomfortable with the idea of time travel.
(d) He is embarrassed at Gohtaro's gratitude.

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

5. What does the expression "in a pickle" mean (32)?
(a) In a sour mood.
(b) Unable to understand.
(c) In a tricky situation.
(d) Unable to make a move.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gohtaro's daughter's name?

2. How were Shuichi and his wife killed?

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

4. What did Kinuyo give her son when he left for Kyoto?

5. What art did Kinuyo teach Kazu that Kazu now teaches others?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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)?

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. Why is Kazu especially concerned with whether Kyoko's brother understands the rule about not being able to change the present?

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

10. When Gohtaro wakes up just after eight o'clock, what does Miki try to do, and how do her father and Kazu react?

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