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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. Whose is Kiyoshi referencing when he talks about the dying man who travels into the future?
(a) Katsuki Kurata.
(b) Gohtaro Chiba.
(c) Shuichi Kamiya.
(d) Yukio Mita.

2. What does Miki find on the café floor after Kiyoshi returns from the past?
(a) A cherry-blossom petal.
(b) A snowflake.
(c) A cricket.
(d) A paper with a wish written on it.

3. What color is the dress that Miki choose to wear to pour the coffee?
(a) Red.
(b) Pink.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

4. What is Kurata's attitude after he speaks with Asami and finally drinks the last of his coffee?
(a) Wistful.
(b) Irritated.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Defeated.

5. When Kurata visits the café to clarify the time-travel rules, what question does he ask Kazu that she does not know the answer to?
(a) Whether people who become ghosts are stuck in the time they traveled to.
(b) Why time-travelers cannot see the other customers during time travel.
(c) What time the ghost leaves her seat each day.
(d) Whether the coffee cools at the same rate for everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who enters the café just after Kurata finally finishes his coffee and disappears?

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

3. What sound does the story end with?

4. On what date does the story "Husband and Wife" take place?

5. What surprising event ends this story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comparison does Yukio make between his own situation and that of a character in Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird?

2. How did Kinuyo prove her devotion to her son over and over during his childhood?

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

4. How do Yukio's actions and emotions during the scene where he first sits down in the time-travel chair foreshadow his plan to not return to the present?

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

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

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

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. How did Yukio lose all of his money?

10. When Yukio is discouraged about his future, what keeps him working toward becoming a potter?

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