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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. What type of people did Mrs. Saeki write a book about?
(a) People who had died and come back to life.
(b) People who had been abandoned as children.
(c) People who had unusual animals as pets.
(d) People who had been struck by lightning.

2. Where does Kafka embrace Mrs. Saeki for the first time?
(a) At the library.
(b) At the grocery store.
(c) At the movie theater.
(d) At the beach.

3. What does the word "Kafka" translate to from Czech?
(a) Crow.
(b) Black.
(c) Bird.
(d) Soul.

4. What does Mrs. Saeki ask Nakata to do with the stack of papers she has written about her life?
(a) Deliver them to her son.
(b) Burn them.
(c) Treasure them.
(d) Publish them.

5. What happens to Mrs. Saeki after Nakata leaves the library?
(a) She begins to weep.
(b) She dies.
(c) She faints.
(d) She is arrested.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters encounters Johnny Walker while walking through the woods?

2. What form does pure evil take when it tries to sneak through the entrance stone?

3. Which of the following characters lies about seeing Kafka in order to protect him from the searching police?

4. Which of the following characters accidentally admits to being from the same area where Kafka's father was murdered?

5. Which of the following images is the subject of a painting hanging in Kafka's bedroom at the library?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mrs. Saeki first open the entrance stone?

2. What is the origin of Kafka's name?

3. How does Colonel Sanders explain his physical form to Hoshino?

4. How do Nakata and Hoshino know that the entrance stone is working?

5. What conversation does Hoshino get into with the elderly coffee shop owner the day that the entrance stone is flipped?

6. What happens when Crow encounters Johnny Walker in the enchanted woods?

7. Why does Oshima wake Kafka in the middle of the night with a frantic phone call?

8. How does Mrs. Saeki react when Kafka confronts her about the possibility that she is his mother?

9. How does Kafka react when he is approached by the Japanese soldiers in Oshima's woods?

10. How does Kafka react to the desolate village that the Japanese soldiers guide him to?

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