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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the profession of Yuki's father in the novel?
(a) Novelist.
(b) Banker.
(c) Photographer.
(d) Race car driver.

2. The assignment the protagonist goes on in Chapter 2 involves writing about what?
(a) Animals.
(b) Restaurants.
(c) Men.
(d) Cars.

3. In Chapter 9, the narrator has an eerie experience on what floor of the hotel?
(a) 10th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 4th.

4. Where do the writer and photographer arrive in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Haneda.
(b) Honolulu.
(c) Hokkaido.
(d) Hakodate.

5. What has the Dolphin Hotel been renamed in Chapter 4?
(a) L'Hôtel Dauphin.
(b) The Hilton.
(c) Hotel Japan.
(d) The Ritz.

6. The Sheep Man tells the writer that his people were chased where long ago in Chapter 11?
(a) The swamp.
(b) The woods.
(c) The desert.
(d) The mountains.

7. Whom does the writer see seducing a woman in the film in Chapter 14?
(a) The Sheep Man.
(b) Hiraku Makimura.
(c) Ryoichi Gotanda.
(d) Ame.

8. In Chapter 9, the writer develops an elaborate fantasy about what actress?
(a) Meg Ryan.
(b) Susan Serandon.
(c) Julia Roberts.
(d) Jodie Foster.

9. Where do the writer and the girl arrive in Chapter 16?
(a) Kathmandu.
(b) Sapporo.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) Haneda.

10. The interior of the hotel in Chapter 5 is described as what by the narrator?
(a) Dingy.
(b) Opulent.
(c) Dilapitated.
(d) Gaudy.

11. Whom does the writer promise to have dinner with when he returns in Chapter 15?
(a) Yuki.
(b) The Sheep Man.
(c) The receptionist.
(d) The hotel manager.

12. How long has the film been playing when the writer decides to watch it in Chapter 14?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 12 minutes.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) 7 minutes.

13. What is the name of the woman who lived with the writer at the Dolphin Hotel?
(a) Lele.
(b) Kiki.
(c) Mimi.
(d) Rene.

14. For how long did the protagonist remain reclusive following his divorce and depression, as described in Chapter 2?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 5 weeks.
(d) 12 days.

15. Whom does Yuki mention which chills the writer in Chapter 19?
(a) Ryoichi Gotanda.
(b) Miss Yumiyoshi.
(c) The Sheep Man.
(d) Kiki.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Sheep Man says that the only thing the writer can do is what in Chapter 11?

2. In what country is the novel set?

3. At what time does the writer go to dinner in Chapter 13?

4. In Chapter 12, the writer returns to the bedroom and is plagued by what?

5. Who does the bartender say the girl at the bar is waiting for in Chapter 6?

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