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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 beverage does Kurata ask Nagare for at the beginning of the story?
(a) Matcha.
(b) Orange juice.
(c) Eggnog.
(d) Cold water.

2. 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) Why time-travelers cannot see the other customers during time travel.
(b) What time the ghost leaves her seat each day.
(c) Whether people who become ghosts are stuck in the time they traveled to.
(d) Whether the coffee cools at the same rate for everyone.

3. What did Kinuyo sometimes send Yukio in her care packages?
(a) Photos from family events.
(b) Homemade sweets.
(c) Instant foods.
(d) Letters from his father and sister.

4. How does Nagare explain what happened to Kaname?
(a) She was probably confused about how cold the coffee could get.
(b) Kazu forgot to explain all of the rules thoroughly.
(c) Kazu did not perform the coffee-pouring ceremony properly.
(d) She could not bear to return to the present without her husband.

5. Where is Fumiko when she calls Kurata while he is in the café?
(a) Outside the café.
(b) At work.
(c) At Asami's home.
(d) At her home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Yukio when he accepted the wholesaler's offer?

2. How does Miki address Kazu when she asks Kazu about changing her name if she gets married?

3. What is the primary intent of the passage in which Miki comes out to pour the coffee and Nagare questions her about her readiness for the task?

4. What is implied when the narrator says that, upon hearing of his mother's death, Yukio "heard a tautly stretched string snapping inside his head" (66)?

5. How long has Yukio been deep in debt?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kimiko have such a strong emotional reaction to the gift from Kiyoshi?

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

3. What role did Kinuyo play in Kazu's recovery from her mother's death?

4. After Asami suffered a miscarriage, what advice did Kurata give her?

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

6. What is Kurata wearing in the story's opening, and why does it make him seem out of place?

7. What similarity does Kiyoshi see between his and Kazu's situations?

8. How does Yaeko Hirai's story inspire Kiyoshi to make a change in the way he has been living his life?

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

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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