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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bell in Spring, The Kite's House, and A Garden in the Capital.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was there one middle-school pregnancy?
(a) Miyagi.
(b) Sendai.
(c) Hirosaki.
(d) Niigata.

2. What music is Kikuko playing when Shingo calls her at her family's home?
(a) Bach.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Chopin.
(d) Mozart.

3. How many fifteen-year-old girls had legal abortions?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

4. How old is Fusako?
(a) 28.
(b) 25.
(c) 30.
(d) 37.

5. How long after Eiko quits work does she bring the woman who shares a house with Shuichi's mistress to see Shingo?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 3 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What day of the week did the maid leave?

2. What does Shingo put in his tea to help his memory?

3. Where is Yasuko's old family house located?

4. In a novel that Shuichi shows an office girl, what city does the novelist reference?

5. How old are the lotus seeds that a lotus doctor manages to get to blossom?

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