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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes the mental state of the Main Character at the time he knew the person who dies in Chapter 1?
(a) Angst ridden.
(b) Driven.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Unfocused.

2. How much money does the Main Character have from the Strange Man?
(a) 1,000 American dollars.
(b) 150 ten thousand yen notes.
(c) 500 thousand yen notes.
(d) 20,000 American dollars.

3. What does the Main Character find in the back of the limo that the Strange Man sends to pick him up and bring him to the Boss?
(a) A lighter with a worm emblem.
(b) A lighter with a sheep emblem.
(c) A travel mug with a sheep emblem.
(d) A travel mug with a worm emblem.

4. What is the name of the person who dies in Chapter 1?
(a) Song.
(b) Li.
(c) Not revealed.
(d) Harumi.

5. What does the Rat apologize for in his first letter to the Main Character?
(a) For sleeping with the Main Character's ex-wife.
(b) For leaving when their mother was ill.
(c) For leaving town without saying goodbye.
(d) For their last fight.

6. Who arrives at the Main Character's apartment after he makes his purchase in Chapter 22?
(a) The ex-wife.
(b) The Rat.
(c) The Girlfriend.
(d) The Strange Man.

7. For how long does the Main Character tell the Business Partner that he will be gone?
(a) Until his next birthday.
(b) At least a month.
(c) He does not tell him.
(d) At least a year.

8. What does the Rat tell the Main Character in his first letter?
(a) About the pictures he is painting.
(b) About the towns he has traveled to.
(c) About his courses at the University.
(d) About the women he has slept with.

9. What does the Main Character realize about his photos at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) He is not in any of his photos.
(b) There is a slip on a chair in many of the pictures.
(c) He has not taken any photos in three years.
(d) His ex-wife cut out any picture of herself.

10. What does the Strange Man tell the Business Partner that the company must do?
(a) Fire the Girlfriend.
(b) Hire the person he indicates.
(c) Stop publishing a certain bulletin.
(d) Start to publish a bulletin that contains specific information.

11. What does the Strange Man tell the Business Partner to do with the object he gives him?
(a) Memorizes it.
(b) Locks it in a safe.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Gives it to the Main Character.

12. What best describes the Girlfriend's feelings about her ears?
(a) That they are her only source of beauty.
(b) She is greatly embarrassed by them.
(c) That they are separate from the rest of her.
(d) She is very proud of them.

13. In what year is the Boss's brain cyst discovered?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1945.

14. What music does the Main Character recall hearing during his time with the person who dies were together?
(a) Ska.
(b) Swing Music.
(c) The Doors, the Stones, and the Moody Blues.
(d) Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash.

15. Whom does the Limo Driver tell the Main Character gave him the important phone number?
(a) The Girlfriend.
(b) The Strange Man.
(c) God.
(d) The Boss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Main Character and his guest do together in Chapter 2?

2. How old is the Girlfriend as noted in Chapter 4?

3. What does the Main Character do in Chapter 3 after his unexpected visitor leaves?

4. What does the Strange Man believe is really the Boss's problem?

5. What do the Main Character and his business partner first discuss in Chapter 7?

(see the answer keys)

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