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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. 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 how Shige became homeless.
(d) Kazu wonders what happened to Emile.

2. What does Kazu worry may have happened the night Setsuko died?
(a) Somebody killed her.
(b) She killed herself.
(c) She had an allergic reaction to something she ate at the ceremony.
(d) She tried to call for him but he was too drunk to hear.

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

4. How much was the homeless man Kazu listens to making in his profession before the bubble burst and his company went under?
(a) 1 million yen/ month.
(b) 800,000 yen/ month.
(c) 45,000 yen/ month.
(d) 17,000 yen /month.

5. What gift from Yoko and Setsuko did Kazu still have while homeless?
(a) A wallet.
(b) A watch.
(c) His shoes.
(d) A keychain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the occasional notices outside Ueno Park there to inform the homeless people about?

2. How often did Kazu's daughter Yoko's family visit after Kazu returns home?

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

4. What does Kazu say he felt about the hostess the first time they danced at the cabaret?

5. What does the homeless man Kazu hears telling another his life story say happened after he lost his job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Shogitai grave?

2. Describe the homeless man Kazu sees on one of the "sarcophagus-like stone benches" (100). How does he know he is homeless? Why might others not know?

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

4. What did Kazu think would happen to him after he died? What happened instead?

5. What does Kazu say teenagers had been doing to the homeless around when the homeless former realtor had died?

6. What gift from Yoko and Setsuko did Kazu still wear while homeless? Why did he think about removing it when he considered dying?

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

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

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

10. What does Shige tell Kazu about the statue of Saigo Takamori near Ueno Park?

(see the answer keys)

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