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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Manuela excited about being retained by Kakura?
(a) He wants her to reside in his apartment complex.
(b) He gave her raise.
(c) He has few demands.
(d) He has a good-looking cook about her age.

2. Why is Renee embarrassed?
(a) She thought a particular painting was done by someone else.
(b) She needs to use the bathroom.
(c) She trips on the floor mat.
(d) She falls into him when she stumbles on the door step.

3. What surprises Renee about Kakuro's last name?
(a) It is the same as another Japanese man she knows.
(b) It is the same as both a favorite author and filmmaker of Renee's.
(c) It is not Japanese.
(d) It is German.

4. Who joins Renee and Manuela for tea?
(a) Olympe.
(b) Columbe.
(c) Paloma's mother.
(d) Kakura.

5. What does Paloma wonder what might be the true movement of the world?
(a) Hands clasping each other.
(b) Piano music.
(c) Voices raised in song.
(d) The sound of the ocean waves.

6. What do Renee and Kakuro discuss before he shows her his kitchen?
(a) The painting in the entryway.
(b) The haiku poem he gives her.
(c) The way the Japanese value austerity.
(d) The tapestry hanging in the entryway.

7. What does Jacinthe Rosen do for Renee?
(a) Push for a raise.
(b) Introduces her to the new tenent in the building.
(c) Give her a gift certificate.
(d) Push for better benefits.

8. What does Renee ask Manuela to do?
(a) Make pastries.
(b) Take care of Renee's cat.
(c) Contact Paloma's mother.
(d) Help Paloma.

9. What is Renee thinking about when someone knocks on her door?
(a) Learning to play bridge.
(b) What to read for the evening.
(c) How to redeem herself with Manuela.
(d) Having given herself away to Kakuro.

10. What Japanese tradition does Kakuro explain?
(a) That they hide the sounds of flushing.
(b) That they take off their shoes.
(c) That the younger person pours the tea for the older person.
(d) That the more powerful person pours the tea for the less powerful person.

11. What amazes Renee about her new hair style?
(a) It seems so chic.
(b) It bespeaks a woman of taste.
(c) It is simple yet elegant.
(d) It is so fluffy.

12. What discussion takes place at Renee's apartment?
(a) The difference between and good and bad death.
(b) The reason the average person resents the wealthy.
(c) The differences between film and literature.
(d) The differences between French and English cultures.

13. What Manuela tell Renee to do to prepare for dinner?
(a) Learn about Kakuro.
(b) Get a pedicure.
(c) Get her hair done.
(d) Get a facial.

14. What does Renee thinks offers more continuity in a house than conventional doors?
(a) Bamboo curtins.
(b) Sliding doors.
(c) Open doorways.
(d) Bead curtins.

15. Why does Paloma prefer her aunt and uncle to her own parents?
(a) They are more attentive to Paloma and others.
(b) They seem to have accepted their place in the world.
(c) They are kinder and more liberal.
(d) They are fun and full of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Renee invite Paloma into her apartment?

2. What arrives for Columbe?

3. How does Kakuro respond when Renee quotes from the book?

4. What does Paloma's mother ask Renee?

5. Why does Renee wear a handkerchief to work?

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