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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 Mike remember Eiju saying to him right before he abandoned the family in America?
(a) He said Mike was almost as tall as he was.
(b) He said Mike should be a cook.
(c) He told Mike that Mike could not possibly be gay.
(d) He said Mike should take care of his mother.

2. What is Kunihiko angry with Mike about?
(a) Not working harder at the bar.
(b) Mike's stealing money from the bar.
(c) Not telling him how sick Eiju was.
(d) Mike's drinking too much.

3. Who comes to have dinner regularly at Eiju's as Eiju enters the later stages of his illness?
(a) Kunihiko.
(b) Takeshi.
(c) Tan.
(d) Ben.

4. What had Mike decided to do just before he got the call from Mistsuko about Eiju's illness?
(a) Move out of his own apartment with Ben.
(b) Start his own restaurant.
(c) Go back to college.
(d) Break up with Ben.

5. Who reminds Mike to take care of himself as well as his father?
(a) Sana.
(b) Hana.
(c) Natsue.
(d) Takeshi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mike talk to when he helps his father with the liquor order?

2. Who does Mike meet in Eiju's bar whom he is romantically interested in?

3. Who are the trio of salarymen who frequent Eiju's bar?

4. What does Mike cook for Eiju's doctor?

5. Which couple are regulars at Eiju's bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Mike become somewhat romantically involved with in Osaka and how does this happen?

2. Why does Mike realize his mother was taking him out for fancy dinners for a time?

3. What upsets Mike about Ben's attitude towards the neighbors?

4. What does Eiju tell Mike when Mike asks how he first met Mitsuko?

5. What does Eiju say when Mike tells him he is gay in Part III?

6. How does Eiju generally treat Mike when Mike first shows up in Osaka?

7. Why is Mike angry at his mother for the circumstances surrounding her telling him that Eiju is dying?

8. What makes Mike upset about how Eiju manages his illness?

9. What does Mike eventually realize Mary and Harold, his neighbors, have in mind for him?

10. What does Mike say to Ben shortly before he leaves for Osaka that he knows he should not have said?

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