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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3 Chapter 4: Buying New Shoes ? The Thing That Came Back Home (Pgs. 362-372) | Book 3 Chapter 5: A Place You Can Figure Out If You Think About It Really, Really Hard (May Kasahara's Point of View: 1) (Pgs. 373-376).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saves Lieutenant Mamiya from the dry well where the Mongolian soldiers leave him?
(a) Yanamoto.
(b) A Mongolian sheep-herder.
(c) Honda.
(d) A Russian soldier.

2. What does Toru decide he needs to purchase at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) New clothes.
(b) A car.
(c) The Miyawaki well.
(d) A ticket to Crete.

3. What tune is the waiter whistling in Toru's Chapter 8 dream?
(a) Mahler's Resurrection.
(b) Rossini's Thieving Magpie.
(c) Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
(d) Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.

4. After how many days of people-watching does Toru Okada see the man with the guitar case?
(a) 17.
(b) 6.
(c) 11.
(d) 3.

5. For what does May Kasahara castigate Toru Okada in Chapter 5?
(a) Having too many women around him.
(b) Not showing up at work with her.
(c) Giving up on finding his cat.
(d) Not washing his clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 11, what does Toru remember doing with his father as a child?

2. What color is the mark that Toru discovers on his cheek in Chapter 12?

3. What sensation is Creta Kano surprised to feel when Noboru Wataya has sex with her?

4. What does Creta Kano cook for breakfast in Chapter 13?

5. What horrific action does the man with the guitar case undertake in Toru's dream in Chapter 16?

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