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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8, Chapter 41-43: Green Cords and Red Cords; Frozen Seagulls, Return Visit to the Unlucky Bend, The Twelve O'clock Rendezvous.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the opening scene of the novel occur?
(a) An unnamed village in Japan.
(b) London.
(c) Saigon.
(d) Tokyo.

2. Who says that names are given to things with purpose that are familiar and not mass produced?
(a) The person who picks up the cat.
(b) The station attendant.
(c) The Main Character.
(d) The Girlfriend.

3. What do the Main Character and the Girlfriend discuss after arriving at the station in Chapter 24?
(a) Time saved by their mode of transportation.
(b) God's inefficiencies.
(c) The Girlfriend's ears.
(d) The downfalls of naming a child.

4. Where does the couple first take a train to in Chapter 29?
(a) Asahikawa.
(b) Wakkanai.
(c) Shimonoseki.
(d) Honshukido.

5. What political party is under the Boss's control?
(a) The conservative party.
(b) The liberal party.
(c) The socialist party.
(d) The Pan-Asian party.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the caretaker at the ranch tell the Main Character that he must do to the sheep on the day of his visit?

2. In what year is the Boss's brain cyst discovered?

3. What does the Sheep Professor tell Main Character and the Girlfriend that the sheep plans to do?

4. What does the Main Character discover when he wakes up in Chapter 33?

5. How does the Strange Man respond to the Main Character's attempts at small talk during their phone call in Chapter 22?

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