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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. During dinner in Chapter 3, how many times do candles blow out?
(a) 3-4.
(b) 1-2.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

2. How long has Eiko worked in Shingo's office?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 6 months.

3. Who wakes Shingo early on New Year's Day?
(a) Shuichi.
(b) Kikuko.
(c) Satoko.
(d) Kuniko.

4. What type of a dwarf tree used to belong to Yasuko's sister?
(a) Cherry.
(b) Oak.
(c) Pine.
(d) Maple.

5. What type of nut fell when Yasuko and Shingo were married?
(a) Almond.
(b) Wasabi.
(c) Heartnut.
(d) Chestnut.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the young girl who talks to Shingo about flowers blooming near her house?

2. In Chapter 2, how many cigarettes does Shingo remember lighting at the office all at once?

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

4. Where was there one middle-school pregnancy?

5. In a eulogy, how many years did a woman painter wear her hair straight back and held in place by a comb?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shingo struggle to remember at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. With whom did Shingo go dancing one night?

3. How did Mizuta die?

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

5. What is noticed about the trees in the garden after the typhoon?

6. Why does Kikuko go to the University Hospital?

7. What does Yasuko tell her daughter when Fusako says that Shingo is nice to Kikuko?

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

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

10. How did Shingo come to hire Eiko?

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