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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. How does the receptionist describe the air as smelling just before she had a strange experience in the hotel in Chapter 7?
(a) Moldy.
(b) Like sulphur.
(c) Like beer.
(d) Like garbage.

2. How long has it been since the protagonist has seen Kiki in Chapter 4?
(a) 4.5 years.
(b) 10 weeks.
(c) 41 days.
(d) 18 months.

3. The protagonist tells his business connections that he must go where in Chapter 3?
(a) Hokkaido.
(b) Akasaka.
(c) Sapporo.
(d) Tokyo.

4. What is the young girl doing the following morning when the narrator sees her again in Chapter 6?
(a) Sitting in the lobby.
(b) Swimming in the pool.
(c) Having breakfast with her mother.
(d) Leaving the hotel.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the receptionist at the hotel whom the narrator befriends?

3. What was the manager's reaction when the receptionist told him about her strange experience, as told in Chapter 7?

4. Where do the writer and photographer arrive in the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. How old is the girl that the narrator sees in the bar in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What favor does the hotel receptionist ask of the protagonist in Chapter 15? What is his response?

2. How does Yuki describe her relationship with her parents in Chapter 16?

3. What thoughts consume the protagonist in Chapter 13? Why?

4. What events take place when the protagonist awakens in Chapter 14?

5. How does the narrator compare the old Dolphin Hotel to its replacement in Chapter 6?

6. What led to a previous depression of the protagonist's, as described in Chapter 2?

7. What does the protagonist discover at the library in Chapter 7?

8. Where does the protagonist tell his business associates he must go in Chapter 3? Why?

9. Why does the hotel receptionist speak under false pretenses in Chapter 7?

10. Where does the author arrive in Chapter 4? What does he do after arriving?

(see the answer keys)

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