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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Scheherazade and Kino".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years older than Habara is Scheherazade?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

2. Dr. Tokai tells the narrator that a gentleman does not talk about the women he sleeps with nor about what other subject?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Taxes.
(d) Morality.

3. Dr. Tokai's girlfriends always display which quality?
(a) They are always models.
(b) They are always thin.
(c) They are always rich.
(d) They are always married or have steady boyfriends.

4. What phrase does Dr. Tokai use to describe what his friends all tell him about parenting?
(a) Sales pitch.
(b) Mirage in the desert.
(c) Wishful thinking.
(d) Smoke screen.

5. What object does Dr. Tokai instruct to be given to the narrator upon Dr. Tokai's death?
(a) A squash racket.
(b) A picnic basket.
(c) A lightbulb.
(d) A clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist of the story "Kino" owns what type of establishment?

2. What verb is used to describe the way in which Habara had come to the "provincial city north of Tokyo" (121) four months before the story's beginning?

3. What does Habara name as something his support liaison, whom he calls Scheherazade, never says out loud?

4. Kitaru's ritual when he arrives home involves the singing of the song Yesterday and what other action?

5. Tanimura had wanted to become a new person when he took what action?

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