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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. How many patients are at Ami Hostel?
(a) Ninety.
(b) Seventy.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Thirty-five.

2. What does Naoko say would be "wrong"?
(a) For two people who don't love one another to get married.
(b) For a person to make a promise s/he cannot keep.
(c) For one person to watch over another forever.
(d) For them to keep any secrets from one another.

3. In what color envelope was Naoko's letter sent?
(a) White.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Pink.

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

5. What did Toru's roommate do first thing in the morning that disturbed him?
(a) Cooked ramen noodles in the room.
(b) Yoga.
(c) Radio Calisthenics.
(d) Sang along to the national anthem.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Toru think about after Reiko leaves him in the apartment?

3. In what month did Toru run into Naoko on the train?

4. How old is the narrator at the beginning of the novel?

5. What book was Toru reading the night he went to the movies alone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Naoko get angry at Toru in the meadow?

3. How did Naoko and Toru spend their afternoon together after meeting on the train?

4. How does Naoko describe her basketball team?

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

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

7. What does Toru assume about the name of Ami Hostel?

8. What was the "field well"?

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

10. How did Storm Trooper affect Toru and Naoko's plans in January 1969?

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