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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Samsa in Love" and "Men Without Women".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What object is named as something that "fulfilled its structural role but aspired to nothing further" (186) at the start of "Samsa in Love"?
(a) The framed portrait.
(b) The fur stole.
(c) The ceiling.
(d) The shape of Gregor's thorax.

2. When Gregor Samsa makes it out of his bedroom, he finds that there is a total of how many doors in the hallway?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

3. Habara describes his frequent sexual experiences with Scheherazade as neither "businesslike" (122) nor what?
(a) Engaging.
(b) Routine.
(c) Sensual.
(d) Passionate.

4. The locksmith who rings Gregor Samsa's doorbell has what self-described disability?
(a) Legal blindness.
(b) Dyslexia.
(c) A hunchback.
(d) Palsy.

5. For what reason does Kitaru's long-time girlfriend agree to a date with Tanimura?
(a) She wants to feel that she has a secret from Kitaru.
(b) She has nothing to do on the night he invites her out.
(c) She wants to get back at Kitaru for suggesting the date.
(d) She thinks Tanimura is handsome.

Short Answer Questions

1. In response to Tanimura's comment about Kitaru's feelings about the song Yesterday, Kitaru tells Tanimura to remember that which person had "loved nonsense and word games" (47)?

2. The narrator of "An Independent Organ" states that most of the story's contents come from what source?

3. For how long had Dr. Tokai been seeing the married woman before he had fallen in love with her?

4. The day after Kino and his female customer have sex, what time does Kino awake to find the woman gone?

5. The man calling the unnamed narrator of "Men Without Women" says that what event had taken place the previous Wednesday?

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