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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 overwhelms Paloma?
(a) Hearing Kakuro play the piano.
(b) Seeing Renee all dressed up.
(c) The sound of the school's choir in concert.
(d) Seeing Kakuro in traditional Japanese dress.

2. Who is Paul Nguyen?
(a) Kakuro's cousin.
(b) Kakuro's assistant.
(c) Kakuro's nephew.
(d) Kakuro's son.

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

4. 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 German.
(d) It is not Japanese.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Renee careful about as she walks to Kakuro's apartment?

2. What is Renee thinking about when someone knocks on her door?

3. Why is Paloma surprised that the new tenant wants to have tea with her mother?

4. Why does Renee invite Paloma into her apartment?

5. About what does Paloma contradict a teacher of hers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Kakuro want when he comes to Renee's apartment, and what is her response?

3. What does Paloma feel and think when she hears her school choir singing?

4. Why does Paloma displease a teacher at her school?

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

6. What fight does Paloma describe between her mother and another woman?

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

8. What does Renee think is wrong with Columbe's thesis and why?

9. How does Renee obtain a dress for her date and what disturbs her about the dress?

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

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