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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the mysterious woman give Toru in Chapter 34?
2. What does Toru do in the dreams Kumiko regularly has?
3. Near the end of Chapter 18, May says that she woke up one day discovered what?
4. Who does May Kasahara imagine she is a lot in Chapter 28?
5. In Chapter 20, what does Nutmeg's mother sell in order to enroll her daughter in fashion school?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Toru overcome Noboru Wataya in Chapter 35?
2. What does May Kasahara remember about the Myawaki's in Chapter 28?
3. What offer does Noboru Wataya make Toru Okada in Chapter 13?
4. What happens to Noboru Wataya in Chapter 37?
5. What questions about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle does Toru have in Chapter 27?
6. Why is Toru content in Chapter 25?
7. What new offer does Ushikawa make to Toru Okada in Chapter 16?
8. What does Toru do after Nutmeg and Cinnamon stop coming to the residence?
9. What circle of connections does Toru Okada uncover in Chapter 23?
10. Describe Mamiya's assassination attempt on Boris in Chapter 32.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Haruki Murakami's novels almost always involve grown men who have not fully developed emotionally and several strong-willed women who force them to question their world-views. Write an essay about Toru Okada's relationship with the women of the novel. How is Toru's emotional growth stunted at the beginning of the novel? What shattering event forces him from his torpor at the beginning of the novel? Choose three women who enter his life after this event and discuss their relationship to him.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about Nutmeg and Cinnamon. What is their function within the novel? Begin the essay by discussing their lives before meeting Toru Okada and how Nutmeg comes to be fascinated with the protagonist. What about the mother and son makes them unusual and eccentric? In the final paragraph, discuss the possibility that Cinnamon is the author of the novel. What is on his computer that would lead a reader to this conclusion?
Essay Topic 3
In The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami juxtaposes the fantastical with a sort of general malaise that permeates modern Japanese society. Write an essay about this general malaise, describing how it manifests itself in the business world, in politics, and in popular culture. How do both Toru Okada and May Kasahara choose to ignore this malaise? Do they drop out of society? Conclude by discussing how this portrait of Japan reflect the Lost Decade in which the novel is set.
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