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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. Because you cannot sell cans in Tokyo, what did Kazu have to do in order to earn money from them?
(a) Crush them with a hammer.
(b) Cut them up with scissors.
(c) Fill them with water or juice.
(d) Make art out of them.

2. What does Kazu say he never did regarding the cabaret hostess?
(a) He never told her his real name.
(b) He never told her he was married.
(c) He never paid for a date.
(d) He never forgave himself for letting her go.

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

4. What does Kazu wonder about after Shige died?
(a) Kazu wonders if somebody killed Shige.
(b) Kazu wonders if Shige killed himself.
(c) Kazu wonders what happened to Emile.
(d) Kazu wonders how Shige became homeless.

5. What do the two businessmen Kazu observes walking toward the Shimizu Kannon Temple discuss on their walk?
(a) Their jobs.
(b) Food.
(c) Work.
(d) The temple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kazu worry may have happened the night Setsuko died?

2. Which of Kazu's family members was the first to die not long after he returned home?

3. What is one of the reasons Kazu believes the Tokyo city government wanted to force the homeless out of Ueno Park?

4. Why were homeless people require to evacuate Ueno Park per the notice on November 20, 2006?

5. Kazu observes two women at the Ueno Art Museum barely looking at the pictures and instead discussing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of work might homeless people do to earn money either as day laborers or regular work?

2. What artist is on exhibit near the Ueno station? Describe his work.

3. What happens to Setsuko seven years after Kazu returned home, and why does he blame himself?

4. What was particularly difficult about the day Kazu saw a notice on his hut that he needed to remove all of his belongs by 8:30 the next morning in November of 2006?

5. Why does Kazu stop going to Shinsekai when he turns 60?

6. After Kazu discusses his return home when he was 60, he describes Setsuko's life all the years he was away. What does he say she did?

7. Who is Mari? What does she do for Kazu after Setsuo's death? How does their relationship end?

8. How old is Kazu when he begins going to Shinsekai? How long after his son's death does he begin to go there? What is Shinsekai?

9. Where is the art exhibit Kazu observes and how are the old women in the gift shop described?

10. How long after Kazu's visit to Shige's hut did Kazu die and what did he wonder regarding Shige?

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