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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. When did Yasuko begin to look younger than Shingo?
(a) She always looked younger.
(b) Just recently.
(c) Mid-forties.
(d) Mid-fifties.

2. What time is Shingo awakened by the noise Shuichi makes when he comes home drunk in Chapter 8?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 12:30.
(c) 1:30.
(d) 2:30.

3. What type of thickets are the side of a stream Shingo sees from his window at the inn?
(a) Plum.
(b) Chokeberry.
(c) Bamboo.
(d) Bearberry.

4. Where does Kikuko have a small scar?
(a) Cheek.
(b) Thumb.
(c) Right arm.
(d) Forehead.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the month at the beginning of Chapter 1?

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

3. What type of butterflies does Shingo see in his garden?

4. With whom did a geisha consider committing suicide?

5. What type of flowers grow near Shingo's neighbor's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had the newspapers predicted about the 210th day of the year?

2. Why doesn't Shuichi think Kikuko is worried about the weather in Chapter 3?

3. Why does Kikuko go to the University Hospital?

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

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

6. Why was Kitamoto put in a mental hospital?

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

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

9. What wakes Shingo at the beginning of Chapter 8?

10. How did Shingo come to hire Eiko?

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