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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 is Paloma escaping?
(a) A boy two floors down.
(b) Her family.
(c) Talking to her mother.
(d) A difficult school assignment.

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

3. Who are Levin and Kitty?
(a) The only other children in the building.
(b) Paloma's cousins.
(c) Brother and sister who come by the building every morning with the newspapers.
(d) Kakuro's cats.

4. What does a courier deliver to Renee?
(a) A pair of tickets.
(b) An expensive book.
(c) A small cat statue.
(d) An invitation.

5. What conflict does Paloma witness?
(a) Between Renee and one of the tenants.
(b) Between her mother and older sister.
(c) Between her mother and another woman at a sale.
(d) Between her father and mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Paloma's cousin born?

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

3. What does Renee find not up to her standards?

4. What does Renee do in response to the gift?

5. Who calls Kakuro?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises Renee as she enters Kakuro's apartment and what does that make her consider?

2. What does Manuela tell Renee about Kakuro's apartment, and what is Renee's response?

3. What does Paul Nguyen tell Renee when he comes to her door and what is Renee's response?

4. What does Paloma want of Renee when she comes to Renee's door at eight?

5. Who wakes Renee at seven and what does Renee tell the person?

6. What does Renee think about art in Chapters 10 and 11?

7. What does Kakuro send Renee and what does she do?

8. Why is Manuela happy about the new tenant?

9. What happens when Renee goes to the cleaners to retrieve the beige dress?

10. What does Renee think of Kakuro's bathroom and what surprises her about it?

(see the answer keys)

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