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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. Where does Toru tell the dorm head that he is going when he leaves for Ami Hostel?
(a) Hiking.
(b) To visit his girlfriend.
(c) Home.
(d) To see Storm Trooper.

2. How did Kizuki die?
(a) Pill overdose.
(b) Carbon monoxide poisoning.
(c) Gun wound.
(d) Hanging.

3. What month was it when Toru and Naoko were in the meadow?
(a) December.
(b) April.
(c) June.
(d) October.

4. What does Midori tell Toru is being burned at her old high school?
(a) Old exam papers.
(b) Grass clippings from the athletic fields.
(c) Sanitary napkins.
(d) Firewood from trees killed in the winter storms.

5. Why is one of the girls Toru meets going to Nagano?
(a) To meet her brand-new nephew.
(b) To see her boyfriend.
(c) To attend her brother's wedding.
(d) To attend her grandfather's funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have passed since the day in the meadow?

2. At what station did Toru and Naoko get off the train together?

3. Who sings the title song, "Norwegian Wood"?

4. What was Naoko talking about in the meadow?

5. What could Toru hear in the distance while he and Naoko were in the meadow?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Toru's living arrangements change after summer break?

2. How was Toru's dorm room different from most of the others?

3. How does Toru spend the summer break?

4. Why does the narrator, Toru, say that memory is such a funny thing as he describes the scene he remembers from the meadow?

5. What causes the narrator to feel dizzy in the opening scene of the novel?

6. What did Naoko tell Toru in the letter she sent him in July 1969?

7. How did Toru feel about joining Nagasawa's womanizing expeditions?

8. How did Ami Hostel come into existence?

9. How does Naoko describe her basketball team?

10. Why didn't Midori like her high school?

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