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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Scar, In the Rain, and The Cluster of Mosquitoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eiko wearing on New Year's Day when she visits the Ogata family?
(a) Black velvet dress.
(b) Colorful kimono.
(c) Flowered dress.
(d) Business suit.

2. What bird is in an ink wash by Watanabe Kazan that Shingo describes?
(a) Kite.
(b) Crow.
(c) Sparrow.
(d) Blackbird.

3. What was Aida drinking in one of Shingo's dreams?
(a) Chuhai.
(b) Sake.
(c) Plum Wine.
(d) Rice Wine.

4. How many thirteen-year-old girls had legal abortions?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. What disease did the young man have who was strangled by his grandfather?
(a) Multiple Schlerosis.
(b) Encephalitis.
(c) Polio.
(d) Infantile paralysis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of nut fell when Yasuko and Shingo were married?

2. How much do perambulators cost to rent by the hour at the garden where Shingo meets Kikuko?

3. How much younger is Kinu than Mrs. Ikeda?

4. How long has Eiko worked in Shingo's office?

5. How many buds did a dwarf tree have that sits in front of the tobacconist's shop before they were pinched off?

(see the answer key)

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