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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. In Chapter 29, what does Ben ask Mitsuko about?
(a) How she cracks an egg with her palm.
(b) How she gets her hair like that.
(c) How she makes her rice.
(d) How she gets the chicken so crispy.

2. What does Omar do for a living?
(a) He is a maintenance worker.
(b) He is a security guard.
(c) He is a personal trainer.
(d) He is a therapist.

3. In Chapter 14, how does Mike characterize Ben's childhood that Ben bristles at?
(a) As being more financially secure than Mike's childhood.
(b) As being more loving than Mike's childhood.
(c) As being sadder than Mike's childhood.
(d) As being more normal than Mike's childhood.

4. What is something Mike never does that he does in Chapter 32?
(a) Cries.
(b) Sends emojis.
(c) Sends a letter.
(d) Leaves a voicemail.

5. In Chapter 28, what does Omar offer Ben?
(a) A free dinner.
(b) Beer.
(c) A truce.
(d) A new friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ximena's husband from?

2. What is strange about Mike's texts in Chapter 31?

3. What does the first text Ben sends Mike once Mike leaves for his trip say?

4. What does Ben ask Mitsuko in Chapter 26?

5. Who was one of Ben's father's girlfriends who he remembers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ben get so angry at the man directing traffic at the airport in Chapter 1?

2. Where do Mitsuko and Ben go together in Chapter 31?

3. What is one of the most striking similarities between Mike's parents and Ben's parents?

4. In Chapter 25, how does Ben react when his mother takes him to her new house for the first time?

5. Which child is Ben closest to at the daycare, and what kinds of problems does this child have?

6. What do Ben and Mitsuko start doing together in the apartment in Part I?

7. What does Mitsuko mail to herself before she leaves Japan so she will have it in America?

8. Who startles Ben by asking him out on a date in Part II?

9. What does Lydia, Ben's sister, think of Mike?

10. How do Ben's family take the realization that he is gay?

(see the answer keys)

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