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

2. How many days after the funeral is Mikage still trying to come to terms with what happens?
(a) Six.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

3. Why does Mikage believe that she is able to understand Yuichi?
(a) She is related to him.
(b) They both lose family.
(c) She does not love him.
(d) She does not need him.

4. What does Mikage see that makes her cry?
(a) Yuichi and his girlfriend.
(b) Eriko walking alone.
(c) A child with their grandmother.
(d) Her ex-boyfriend and another girl.

5. What is there plenty more of in Mikage's life?
(a) Boys.
(b) Kitchens.
(c) Ingredients.
(d) Grandmothers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who seems most distraught about the death?

3. What is the name of Yuichi's mother?

4. How long is Yuichi dating his girlfriend?

5. Where does Yuichi want to go in Mikage's dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mikage's encounter with her previous landlord.

2. Why does Okuno visit Mikage?

3. What role do supernatural elements play in the story?

4. What causes Mikage to cry on the bus?

5. What is it that Satsuki must not do on the bridge during the event? Why?

6. What stuns Mikage about Eriko?

7. How is sexual ambiguity explored in the first chapter?

8. What does Satsuki hope to see on the bridge during the special event?

9. Describe Mikage's last encounter with Eriko before her death.

10. Describe Eriko's death.

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