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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 specific reason is given for Habara needing a support liaison who can bring him groceries and other items he requires?
(a) Because he has agoraphobia.
(b) Because he does not like the bright lights in grocery stores.
(c) Because he will be killed if he emerges from the house.
(d) Because he cannot go outside.

2. Kino describes his bar as "a place where his heart could be" (153) what?
(a) Set free.
(b) Tethered.
(c) Healed.
(d) Happy.

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

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

5. While Scheherazade's days coming to see Habara are not fixed, it is specified that she never comes when?
(a) On weekdays.
(b) On Fridays.
(c) On weekends.
(d) On holidays.

Short Answer Questions

1. During one of her stories, Scheherazade declares that she had been what creature in a former life?

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

3. How many children does the narrator of "An Independent Organ" have?

4. The narrator of "An Independent Organ" describes his own marital status in what way?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Dr. Tokai describes himself to the narrator using what two adjectives?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. How is vivid imagery employed within Scheherazade's depiction of her former life as a lamprey eel?

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

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

10. Describe the relationship between Kino and his aunt.

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