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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Toru Okada cooking when he first receives a call from the mysterious woman in Chapter 1?
(a) Stir fry.
(b) Hot oatmeal.
(c) Baked Chicken.
(d) Spaghetti.

2. What career advice does Toru Okada recall Mr. Honda giving in Chapter 4?
(a) He should start showing up late to work.
(b) He should become a public defender.
(c) He should quit law.
(d) He should ask for a raise.

3. In Chapter 8, how does Creta Kano say she eventually managed to pay off her debts?
(a) She went to work for her sister.
(b) She won the lottery.
(c) She sold her family house.
(d) She became a prostitute.

4. Who eventually rescues Toru from the well?
(a) May Kasahara.
(b) Malta Kano.
(c) Creta Kano.
(d) Kumiko.

5. What does the woman do to Toru's mark in Chapter 4?
(a) The rubs it.
(b) She spears it with a scalpel.
(c) She licks it.
(d) She takes a picture of it.

6. How does Creta Kano explain her lack of clothes in the beginning of Chapter 13?
(a) She lost them.
(b) She gave them to a homeless woman.
(c) She wants Toru to see her body.
(d) She likes being naked.

7. What color is the mark that Toru discovers on his cheek in Chapter 12?
(a) Brown.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

8. How does the actress in the Miyawaki house kill herself?
(a) She takes pills.
(b) She hangs herself.
(c) She shoots herself.
(d) She drowns herself.

9. At the beginning of Chapter 11, what does Toru remember doing with his father as a child?
(a) Going to a baseball game.
(b) Playing cards on a sunny day.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Arguing.

10. What is Toru Okada's duty working with May Kasahara in Chapter 9?
(a) Setting up wig displays.
(b) Filing paperwork for her.
(c) Counting bald heads.
(d) Approaching men on the streets.

11. Why does Mamiya say he is no longer afraid of dying?
(a) His life is an empty shell.
(b) Honda has told him the manner and time of his death.
(c) He has seen far worse deaths than his can ever be.
(d) He has lived a full life.

12. In Chapter 11, Toru Okada is surprised to find packaging for what in his waste-basket?
(a) A portable phone.
(b) Candles.
(c) Steak.
(d) Cologne.

13. According to Toru's uncle in Chapter 13, how did Mr. Miyawaki lose all of his money?
(a) A run on his bank.
(b) A bad stock deal.
(c) Opening a failed restaurant.
(d) A crippling drug addiction.

14. When dis Koru and Kumiko Okada stop taking to Kumiko's parents?
(a) After Koru had a fight with her father.
(b) After Koru quit his job.
(c) After Noburu Wataya began chieving success.
(d) After Kumiko's sister died.

15. What sensation is Creta Kano surprised to feel when Noboru Wataya has sex with her?
(a) Numbness.
(b) Pain.
(c) Heat.
(d) Pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Topographically, where is the town in which May Kasahara is working in Chapter 5?

2. What changes about the style of writing in Chapter 3?

3. What remembrance from the dead Honda does Lieutenant Mamiya give Toru Okada at the end of Chapter 13?

4. Why does Toru's uncle suggest he look up Mr. Ichikawa in Chapter 12?

5. What article of clothing does Toru Okada agree to wear to his meeting with Malta Cano in Chapter 3?

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