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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kazu notice as he stared at his son's face after he died?
(a) He noticed how handsome his son was.
(b) He noticed how much his son resembled Setsuko.
(c) He noticed his son looked like him.
(d) He noticed how much is son looked like his father.

2. What news did Kazu receive about his son just days before his death?
(a) Nobody had heard from him for days.
(b) He was moving to Tokyo.
(c) He was getting married.
(d) He had passed the national radiology exam.

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

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

5. What happened to Hokkaido after the Tokyo Olympics?
(a) Nobody went there anymore.
(b) It became urbanized.
(c) A tsunami hit.
(d) It became a haven for homeless people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Tokyo Ueno Station?

2. What does Kazu recall about the war despite being young when it began?

3. Why did Kazu's coworkers stop inviting him out for drinks?

4. What was Kazu's first job in Onahama?

5. What does the homeless man tell the homeless woman he will do if he wins 5,000 on the horse race?

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