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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what period of time does the friendship between Kafuku and Takatsuki last?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 6 months.

2. How many children does the narrator of "An Independent Organ" have?
(a) 0.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

3. The day after Kino and his female customer have sex, what time does Kino awake to find the woman gone?
(a) Nearly three in the afternoon.
(b) Nearly six in the morning.
(c) Nearly noon.
(d) Nearly ten in the morning.

4. What is the cause of Dr. Tokai's death?
(a) Drowning.
(b) Self-starvation.
(c) Drug overdose.
(d) Jumping off a bridge.

5. For what reason does Kino quit his job in the sporting goods industry?
(a) He wants to get out of the sporting goods business.
(b) He asks for a raise and does not get it.
(c) He is in love with a colleague and does not want to be unfaithful to his wife.
(d) He discovers that his wife has been having an affair with his best friend at the company.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kitaru remarks that his parents are constantly nagging him about what element of his behavior?

2. For what reason does Kitaru learn the Kansai dialect?

3. What type of literary device is used within Kino's wife's declaration that there had been something wrong between her and Kino from the start, "as if [they'd] done the buttons up wrong" (168)?

4. Within one of Scheherazade's stories, she confides in Habara that she had been a high school junior when she first took what action?

5. What action does Misaki Watari take that makes Kafuku think that the action must be one that everyone in Junitakicho undertakes?

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