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

2. Kamita gives Kino what explicit advice as Kino sets off on his long journey?
(a) He tells Kino not to speak to anyone during his trip.
(b) He tells Kino to call Kino's aunt frequently during the trip.
(c) He tells Kino to meet many nice friends during his travels.
(d) He tells Kino not to stay in one place for too long.

3. What word does the narrator use to describe Dr. Tokai's sense of humor?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Straightforward.
(c) Wry.
(d) Airy.

4. 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)?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Simile.
(c) Personification.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

5. What does Habara name as something his support liaison, whom he calls Scheherazade, never says out loud?
(a) The number of children she has.
(b) Her age.
(c) His name.
(d) Her own wishes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Kino and his female customer go in order to have sex with one another?

2. How often does Scheherazade come to see Habara?

3. The ceiling overhead the bald man when he sits at his favorite and only spot in Kino's establishment has what characteristics?

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

5. The person who coordinates Dr. Tokai's personal calendar also records the patterns of what element in each girlfriend's life?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what work is the title of the story "Scheherazade" referring and what is the significance of the title?

2. What is Dr. Tokai's eventual fate?

3. How is the theme of escape depicted within Habara's receipt of Scheherazade's stories?

4. What is the symbolism inherent in Kino's bar?

5. What are Kino's feelings toward his ex-wife and her lover, who had also been Kino's colleague?

6. What elements are listed within Habara's list of the only "personal information [Scheherazade] had volunteered" (117)?

7. What type of doctor is Dr. Tokai and how does his job relate to his preferred habits regarding dating?

8. How does the theme of appearance versus reality emerge within the stories that Scheherazade tells to Habara?

9. Name the mysterious elements present within the story "Scheherazade" that are not resolved by the end of the story.

10. In what ways is the unnamed narrator of "An Independent Organ" suggested to be possibly unreliable?

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