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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shuichi hand Kikuko when he comes home at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Socks.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Fish.
(d) Book.

2. What language does Shuichi know that Kikuko does not?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Chinese.
(c) German.
(d) French.

3. Where does Shingo think he might take a vacation in the summer?
(a) Nomugi.
(b) Kamikochi.
(c) Takayama.
(d) Hachimori.

4. In Chapter 2, how many cigarettes does Shingo remember lighting at the office all at once?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

6. When did a geisha tell Shingo that she had considered committing suicide?
(a) 1 month earlier.
(b) 2 days ago.
(c) 1 year ago.
(d) 2 months earlier.

7. Where did Shuichi grow up?
(a) Kyoto.
(b) Yokohama.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Osaka.

8. How many callers wait for Shingo after Toriyama's funeral?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

9. What is Shingo offered to eat in a dream?
(a) Rice.
(b) Fish.
(c) Beans.
(d) Noodles.

10. On what day is there a typhoon?
(a) 175.
(b) 210.
(c) 284.
(d) 191.

11. How many pieces of tin blew into Shingo's roof and garden?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3-4.
(d) 7-8.

12. How long does it take a train to pass through Tanna Tunnel?
(a) 6 minutes.
(b) 2-3 minutes.
(c) 7-8 minutes.
(d) 5 minutes.

13. What time of day does Yasuko listen to a news commentary?
(a) 8.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

14. In Section 2 of "A Blaze of Clouds," what does Yasuko reach for every time the house shakes?
(a) Matchbox.
(b) A candle.
(c) The bed cover.
(d) Shingo's hand.

15. How many children are in the back garden when Shingo awakes at the inn?
(a) 7-8.
(b) 5.
(c) 3-4.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shingo buy at the fishmonger's after work in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 8, what does Shingo compare marriage to?

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

4. How many children did a cabinetmaker have who died in his seventies?

5. What color raincoat does Eiko wear in "A Blaze of Clouds"?

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