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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. As a child, the narrator fantasizes that who wants to kill him?
(a) The maid.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) A pirate.
(d) His brother.

2. Upon Omi's expulsion, the narrator feels Omi has been what?
(a) Martyred.
(b) Targeted.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Careless.

3. For the narrator, Omi represents the perfect image of what?
(a) Upper class.
(b) Man.
(c) A scholar.
(d) A criminal.

4. When is the narrator given an opportunity to start a conversation with Yakumo, but doesn't?
(a) Swimming lessons.
(b) In the library.
(c) Jogging.
(d) At his aunt's house.

5. In the first attempt to execute Sebastian, what weapon was used?
(a) Arrows.
(b) The guillotine.
(c) Guns.
(d) Poison darts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator plan to do once he leaves school?

2. From what illness does the narrator suffer?

3. After Omi is expelled, the narrator dreams of doing what to a classmate?

4. In order to appear masculine, what does the narrator convince his female cousins to do?

5. What photograph is the narrator obsessed with as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Omi and the narrator lock eyes during a game of "King of the Hill," what does the narrator imagine has taken place?

2. Why is the narrator unable to participate in gym class the day that Omi demonstrates how to use the bars?

3. What type of gender influence does the narrator have as a child?

4. Why does the narrator choose not to volunteer as a special cadet?

5. Why do adults seem concerned at the narrator's insistence that he remembers his birth?

6. What is the reaction of his family when the narrator dresses up as the magician, Tenkatsu?

7. What impression is left by the narrator's memory of a night-soil man?

8. Why do the narrator's parents keep him from living in the dormitories at school?

9. When the narrator writes an essay to analyze his feelings about Reni's "Saint Sebastian," what physical object does the narrator discuss and why?

10. Why is Omi expelled from school?

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