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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toru Okada rename his cat in Chapter 6?
(a) Mackerel.
(b) Honda.
(c) Snappy.
(d) Kumiko.

2. Where does Toru's Chapter 8 dream take place?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A ballroom.
(c) A fancy restaurant.
(d) His house.

3. What does Toru find in the envelope the silent boy gives him?
(a) Kumiko's wedding ring.
(b) Money.
(c) The deed to the Miyawki house.
(d) A photo of him in Creta Kano.

4. Why did Creta Kano couple with Toru in his dream?
(a) She felt sorry for him.
(b) She intends to blackmail him.
(c) She is ridiculously attracted to him.
(d) Malta asked her to.

5. For much of Chapter 6, Nutmeg goes shopping with Toru for what?
(a) Groceries.
(b) A new house.
(c) A car.
(d) Clothes.

6. In the beginning of Book 3, why does Toru suspect he has not heard from Kumiko?
(a) She is truly happy without him.
(b) She is being imprisoned by her family.
(c) She is dead.
(d) She never actually existed.

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

8. What is the only piece of information printed on the card that the woman gives Toru in Chapter 2?
(a) An address.
(b) A name.
(c) A title.
(d) A phone number.

9. What era does Creta Kano's style of dress remind Toru Okada of?
(a) The Victorian Era.
(b) The 1960's
(c) The early 1980's.
(d) The 1920's.

10. Topographically, where is the town in which May Kasahara is working in Chapter 5?
(a) On the beach.
(b) By the woods.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) In the lowlands.

11. What does the shorter of the two men in Chapter 3 do while the protagonist watches?
(a) He digs a hole.
(b) He climbs a tree.
(c) He kills the taller man.
(d) He pees in the woods.

12. Who calls Toru Okada in Chapter 11 immediately before the arrive of Lieutenant Mamiya?
(a) May Kasahara.
(b) Malta Kano.
(c) Kumiko.
(d) The mysterious woman.

13. What does Malta Kano do on her international travels?
(a) Attend conferences.
(b) Give public demonstrations of her abilities.
(c) Sample water.
(d) Make psychic house calls.

14. 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 sold her family house.
(c) She won the lottery.
(d) She became a prostitute.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does May Kasahara castigate Toru Okada in Chapter 5?

2. When dis Koru and Kumiko Okada stop taking to Kumiko's parents?

3. How does May Kasahara describe her love life in Chapter 5?

4. Who saves Lieutenant Mamiya from the dry well where the Mongolian soldiers leave him?

5. In Lieutenant Mamiya's story of Chapter 12, what does Yanamoto tell Lieutenant Mamiya he must do if they are captured?

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