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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the occasional notices outside Ueno Park there to inform the homeless people about?
(a) When they need to have their belongings cleared out of the area.
(b) Local soup kitchen hours.
(c) Free clothing drives.
(d) Area food pantries.

2. What did Kazu find interesting about the calendar hung up in Shige's hut?
(a) He had indicated several medical appointments that month.
(b) Each month had a picture of a different family member.
(c) He had lots of people's birthdays written on it.
(d) He had circled some days in red and some in blue.

3. Kazu overhears one women tell another that their friend has not gotten out of bed since what happened?
(a) Her husband left her.
(b) Her son passed away.
(c) Her father died.
(d) Her child was born.

4. What did Shige tell Kazu is significant about the day he invited Kazu to his hut?
(a) It was his wedding anniversary.
(b) It was his birthday.
(c) His daughter was getting married that day.
(d) It was his son's 32nd birthday.

5. Why did Kazu begin having trouble sleeping after his wife died?
(a) The cicadas were too loud.
(b) He had nightmares throughout the night.
(c) He thought of how his wife and son both died in sleep.
(d) He worried Mari might die.

6. How long after Shige invited Kazu to his hut for the first time did Kazu die?
(a) 1 month.
(b) Within hours.
(c) 1 year.
(d) The next day.

7. What does Kazu say is the best way for homeless people to make money because you get your cash immediately?
(a) Bicycle taxi.
(b) Stealing wallets.
(c) Collecting cans.
(d) Selling newspapers.

8. What did Kazu think was going to happen to him after he died?
(a) He would be reborn.
(b) He would haunt his living family members.
(c) He would be reunited with dead family members.
(d) Nothing.

9. Kazu sees a man emerge from a cardboard hut near Shinobazu Pond with something that looks like what, which belonged to Shige?
(a) His calendar.
(b) His books.
(c) His jacket.
(d) Emile, his cat.

10. How is the bench that Kazu sees an old man on so still he seems he could be dead described?
(a) Cold and uninviting.
(b) Sarcophagus-like.
(c) Dream-like.
(d) Bright and comfortable.

11. How old did Shige tell Kazu his son was when he left the family?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 17.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

12. What artist's work is on exhibit at the Ueno Royal Art Museum?
(a) Redoute.
(b) Gaugin.
(c) Picasso.
(d) Monet.

13. For what industry did the homeless man Kazu hears crying work before he became homeless?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Construction.
(c) Finance.
(d) Real Estate.

14. What does Kazu say he felt about the hostess the first time they danced at the cabaret?
(a) He wanted to leave his wife.
(b) She was his dream woman.
(c) Self hate for hurting his wife.
(d) He felt his wife would be happy for him.

15. Kazu walked the earth around Shino-bazu Pond the last time he had to evacuate Ueno Park and recalled what of the Pond's history?
(a) It was the location of the former Imperial Palace.
(b) It was once a horse-racing track.
(c) It was where his ancestors first arrived.
(d) It was a burial ground for unknown soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Kazo reflects on his life in Tokyo, what does he say he was too busy working to do?

2. What does Kazu say he never did regarding the cabaret hostess?

3. What did Kazu do as the Kaempfer cicadas sing while he laid Setsuko's remains near their son?

4. On days when the homeless were forced to evacuate the park, what does Kazu say those with enough money might do?

5. What do the two businessmen Kazu observes walking toward the Shimizu Kannon Temple discuss on their walk?

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