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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. During one of her stories, Scheherazade declares that she had been what creature in a former life?
(a) A lamprey eel.
(b) A praying mantis.
(c) A snake.
(d) A koala.

2. To what work is Habara alluding when he decides to refer privately to his support liaison as Scheherazade?
(a) One Hundred Years of Solitude.
(b) Catch-22.
(c) One Thousand and One Nights.
(d) Robinson Crusoe.

3. To Habara's amazement, Scheherazade tells him that she can recall what phase of her life?
(a) Life as an infant.
(b) Life in the womb.
(c) Life as a teenager.
(d) Life as a toddler.

4. What fraction of the women who had broken up with Dr. Tokai in order to marry another man had eventually gotten back in touch with Dr. Tokai?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 1/3.

5. Where do Kino and his female customer go in order to have sex with one another?
(a) Downstairs to the bar's basement.
(b) To the female customer's apartment.
(c) To a hotel across the street from the bar.
(d) Upstairs to Kino's apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "An Independent Organ" describe the level of success enjoyed by Dr. Tokai's medical practice?

2. Habara describes his frequent sexual experiences with Scheherazade as neither "businesslike" (122) nor what?

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

4. Kamita gives Kino what explicit advice as Kino sets off on his long journey?

5. The first line of the story Scheherazade uses what two adjectives to describe the stories Habara's "support liaison" (121) tells him?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the narrator states that Dr. Tokai had displayed no signs of an unstable personality, what traits does he list as being absent within Dr. Tokai's personality?

2. Around the time Kino's cat disappears, what other creatures begins to show up outside of the bar and what do they symbolize?

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

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

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

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

7. What attitude does the unnamed narrator have about the prospect of having children?

8. Describe Scheherazade's routine upon arriving at Habara's house twice per week.

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

10. Who is Goto and what is his role in the story entitled "An Independent Organ"?

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