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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 beverage does Kikuko serve Shingo mornings and evenings?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Rice wine.
(c) Tea.
(d) Plum wine.

2. How long did Fusako and her children stay with her parents after Shuichi brought them home from the country?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

3. What is the month at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) October.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) July.

4. Where is a friend of Kikuo's hospitalized after having had an abortion?
(a) Hongo.
(b) Chiba.
(c) Kobe.
(d) Saitama.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was a woman painter when she died in a eulogy that Yasuko read?

2. What did Shingo believe that he picked up during a walk?

3. How many days does Shingo believe it will take to bring Fusako back?

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

5. What did Grandfather Amamiya bring when he came to say that he was leaving?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean when someone is called a "half a widow"?

2. What does Mrs. Ikeda think would help get Shuichi to leave his mistress?

3. What sound does Shingo hear when he wakes in the night in Chapter 1?

4. Why do the sunflowers make Shingo think of heads?

5. Why does Kikuko go to the University Hospital?

6. Describe the photograph of Toriyama that was at his funeral.

7. How does Shingo attempt to make his wife stop snoring?

8. What story did a geisha tell Shingo in Chapter 1?

9. Why would it be difficult for Fusako and Aihara to flee if the typhoon should get really bad?

10. Describe Shingo's family.

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