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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 wish does Miki write on the tanzaku paper at the beginning of the story?
(a) She wishes to be allowed to pour the coffee.
(b) She wishes that she could see through walls.
(c) She wishes that Kazu would marry her boyfriend.
(d) She wishes that her father's feet did not smell so bad.

2. What does Kimiko's response to Kiyoshi before she recognizes him demonstrate about her character?
(a) She is flirtatious.
(b) She is determined.
(c) She is a snob.
(d) She is kind.

3. When Yukio arrives in the past, what is Nagare doing?
(a) Talking with a ghost in old-fashioned clothes.
(b) Waving to a child with a red backpack.
(c) Wiping glasses clean.
(d) Grinding coffee beans.

4. Who bought the café's Christmas tree?
(a) Nagare.
(b) Nagare's wife.
(c) Kazu.
(d) Kazu's boyfriend.

5. What sound does the story end with?
(a) Miki singing.
(b) A cricket chirping.
(c) The clocks chiming.
(d) Coffee brewing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which rule does Miki forget to review with Kiyoshi that he later nearly breaks?

2. What is Miki's attitude toward being asked to pour the coffee?

3. Where did Kiyoshi and Kimiko meet?

4. When Miki and Nagare come back to the closed café later that night, what is Kazu doing?

5. What are the details about Kimiko's clothing meant to convey about her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Yukio's perception of his own circumstances change over the years of his apprenticeship?

2. What is so tricky about Kurata's time-travel plans, and how has he tried to plan ahead to overcome this difficulty?

3. When Miki writes her wish that Nagare would become happy, how does Nagare react?

4. When Kimiko enters the café, whom does Kiyoshi pretend to be, and why?

5. What happened when Kimiko tried to intervene in the mugging incident?

6. What complication almost prevents Kiyoshi from traveling back in time, and how does Nagare solve the problem?

7. What does Kinuyo explain to Yukio about the silver stirrer, and what does he realize this means Kinuyo knows?

8. A year prior to the events of "Husband and Wife," what does Kiyoshi see in the café and what does it make him realize is true?

9. What is similar about Asami's decision to meet Kurata and the advice Kurata gave her after her miscarriage?

10. Immediately after losing all of his money, what is the only solution to his problems that Yukio can think of, and what prevents him from choosing this solution?

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