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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 twenty-two.
(b) When she is seventeen.
(c) When she is seven.
(d) When she is twelve.

2. Whom does Gohtaro think that the woman who seems to be the young girl's mother looks very like?
(a) Kaname.
(b) Miki.
(c) Kazu.
(d) Kyoko.

3. What is distinctive about the taste of the coffee served at the café?
(a) It is sour and acidic.
(b) It tastes like almonds.
(c) It tastes like chocolate.
(d) It is bitter and burnt-tasting.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From the context, what is it likely "sakura" means when Shuichi tells Haruka that "the sakura were in full bloom" on the day of her birth (36)?

2. Besides the obvious age differences, what is the only thing that has changed in the café when Gohtero returns to the past?

3. When Gohtaro travels into the past, what does the reader realize about the young man whom Gohtaro and Shuichi thought should be a rugby player?

4. What similarity is there between Kazu's approach to art and her approach to customers at the café?

5. Who convinces Gohtaro to finally go inside the café?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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