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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one constant in Mikage's life?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Yuichi.
(c) Eriko.
(d) The kitchen.

2. Where are Mikage's parents?
(a) Dead.
(b) In America.
(c) On vacation.
(d) In a nursing home.

3. Who are Mikage's remaining relatives?
(a) Her cousin and her aunt.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her aunt and uncle.
(d) She has none.

4. Mikage comes across several kitchens in the first chapter. What is each kitchen representative of?
(a) The people Mikage meets.
(b) The deaths that Mikage deals with.
(c) Each stage in Mikage's life.
(d) The houses that Mikage live in.

5. How does Mikage tell that her ex-boyfriend no longer loves her?
(a) The tone he uses.
(b) The look in his eyes.
(c) His body language.
(d) The words he uses.

6. What motif does the glass have that Eriko gives to Mikage?
(a) Strawberry.
(b) Apple.
(c) Grape.
(d) Banana.

7. What does Yuichi want when he wakes up after Mikage has her dream?
(a) Water.
(b) Ramen.
(c) Tea.
(d) Cucumber salad.

8. What does Mikage make for the Tanabe family?
(a) Cucumber salad and rice with eggs.
(b) Carrot salad and noodles with eggs.
(c) Chicken salad and rice.
(d) Broccoli and rice with eggs.

9. What does Mikage do when she wakes up from her dream?
(a) Wakes Yuichi.
(b) Drinks water.
(c) Cries.
(d) Drinks tea.

10. Where does Mikage hide to cry?
(a) In her old apartment.
(b) On the bus.
(c) An alley.
(d) In a church.

11. What beverage is Mikage drinking in her dream?
(a) Warm milk.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Tea.
(d) Water.

12. What is the one place Mikage finds peace?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The bookstore.
(c) The park.
(d) The bathroom.

13. Who seems most distraught about the death?
(a) Satsuki.
(b) Eriko.
(c) Mikage.
(d) Yuichi.

14. How does Yuichi know Mikage?
(a) He helps carry her grandmother's stuff home.
(b) They go to school together.
(c) They work together.
(d) He meets her at church.

15. Which relative of Mikage's dies recently?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Eriko work?

2. What does Mikage worry about in her dream?

3. What place in the world does Mikage like best?

4. Which scene is the most pivotal in the first chapter?

5. Which character is sexually ambiguous?

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