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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What action had Dr. Tokai always taken when a woman had broken up with him so that she could marry her other boyfriend?

3. How had Dr. Tokai acquired his medical practice?

4. What kind of doctor is Dr. Tokai?

5. What kind of blemishes does Kino's female customer reveal to him the night they have sex?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way is foreshadowing employed within the narrator's memory of his last conversation with Dr. Tokai?

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. Describe the relationship between Kino and his aunt.

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

6. The narrator states that "affable" (83) people almost always have what other qualities?

7. The unnamed narrator of the story "An Independent Organ" presents Dr. Tokai as an example of what type of person?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the short story collection's message concerning the link between love and loss?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Murakami's purpose for using the motif of dreams and visions within his short story collection Men Without Women.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Murakami's focus on the theme of transformation in Haruki Murakami's short story collection Men Without Women. What message is being sent about the nature of change?

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