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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 26 - 52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Kazu watching people at the start of the story?
(a) Tokyo Museum of Architecture.
(b) In an airport.
(c) At the library.
(d) Ueno Station.

2. What does Kazu feel may be the only thing he left on earth?
(a) A sense of tiredness.
(b) Pollution.
(c) Material objects.
(d) Despondence.

3. What is Kazu's wife's name?
(a) Koichi.
(b) Setsuko.
(c) Mari.
(d) Yoko.

4. Why are homeless people often evicted from the park where they live?
(a) They are evicted because they often cause problems in the park.
(b) They are evicted whenever the imperial family comes to visit a local museum.
(c) They are evicted because it is illegal to be homeless in Tokyo.
(d) They are evicted because the locals complain about their presence.

5. What unusual fact do readers learn about the narrator at the start of the story?
(a) He is an infant.
(b) He is a dog.
(c) He has not yet been born.
(d) He is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Kazu stay outside of Ueno Station when he was alive?

2. What happened to much of Kazu and his family's things right around Koichi's birth?

3. What brought many of the homeless to Tokyo in the first place?

4. What does Kazu hear two women joke about when discussing toy poodles?

5. What happened to Hokkaido after the Tokyo Olympics?

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