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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the Dolphin Hotel been renamed in Chapter 4?

2. In Chapter 9, the writer is restless and wishes that the receptionist did not have what that night?

3. The Sheep Man tells the writer that his people were chased where long ago in Chapter 11?

4. What is the profession of Yuki's mother in the novel?

5. In Chapter 9, the writer develops an elaborate fantasy about what actress?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does the protagonist arrive in Chapter 16? Where does he decide to stay?

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

3. How does the protagonist describe Ryoichi Gotanda in Chapter 8?

4. What does the protagonist ask of his former business partner in Chapter 8?

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

6. On what assignment does the protagonist go in Chapter 2? How does he describe his job?

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

8. What fantasy consumes the protagonist in Chapter 9?

9. How does the narrator pass his day in Chapter 7? What are his emotions like?

10. What jealousies consume the protagonist in Chapter 14? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of abandonment in the novel. How does this theme apply to both the narrator and to Yuki?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the settings of Haneda, Tokyo and Akasaka in the narrative. What leads the writer to each of these locales?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the character of the hotel receptionist in the novel, and her story about the sixteenth floor. How might this be another element of foreshadowing?

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