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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 does Reiko teach?
(a) Nutrition.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Music.
(d) Gardening.

2. Why is Toru sad at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Naoko is dead.
(b) He has just heard that a friend of his is very ill.
(c) He misses Naoko.
(d) Naoko never loved him.

3. What famous author's opinion on gambling does Nagasawa quote to Toru?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Twain.

4. Who sings the title song, "Norwegian Wood"?
(a) The Beatles.
(b) Billy Joel.
(c) Elton John.
(d) The Rolling Stones.

5. What does Toru have for lunch in the dining hall?
(a) Chicken dumplings.
(b) Broiled fish.
(c) Potato stew.
(d) Miso soup.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Naoko call "a man's word"?

2. To what Hollywood actor does Midori compare Toru?

3. How many patients are at Ami Hostel?

4. What makes a crunching noise under Naoko and Toru's feet?

5. What cleaning habit of Toru's roommate's actually bothered him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Midori's job?

3. What sorts of things do Naoko and her fellow patients do for entertainment at the hostel?

4. Describe Nagasawa.

5. How does Midori feel about her father?

6. How did Toru and Naoko celebrate her twentieth birthday?

7. What does Nagasawa tell Toru are his reasons for wanting to join the Foreign Ministry?

8. Why is Toru writing this book?

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

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

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