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

2. In his letter in Chapter 4, Mamiya says that - when he was at the bottom of the well in Mongolia - he believes something what living in what?
(a) The damp.
(b) The solitude.
(c) The light.
(d) The silence.

3. What similarity exists between the veterinarian in Chapter 9 and Toru Okada?
(a) They both have been left by their wives.
(b) They both have a blue mark.
(c) They both spend time in dry wells.
(d) They are both the same height.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toru Okada rename his cat in Chapter 6?

2. What does Malta Kano do on her international travels?

3. What does the factory where May Kasahara works produce?

4. In Chapter 16, Toru and the man with the guitar case fight with what weapon?

5. What does Toru find in the envelope the silent boy gives him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What painful admission does May Kasahara make in Chapter 15?

2. Why is Lieutenant Mamiya uncomfortable with his mission with Yanamoto?

3. Why does Toru Okada stay in the well longer than he intended?

4. What strange event happens involving a bar folk singer in Chapter 7?

5. How does the infant Nutmeg nearly killed in the story of Chapter 9?

6. Why is a local tabloid so concerned with the the Miyawaki house in Chapter 7?

7. What is the Clumsy Massacre of Chapter 9?

8. What does Noboru Wataya want to say to Toru Okada in Chapter 3?

9. What does Toru Okada discover while shaving in Chapter 12?

10. How does May Kasahara describe her situation in Chapter 5?

(see the answer keys)

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