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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 Toru receive an invitation to in the spring of 1970?
(a) His high school reunion.
(b) Reiko's leaving-the-sanatorium celebration.
(c) A cousin's wedding.
(d) His uncle's retirement party.

2. How does Toru tell Hatsumi that Kizuki died?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Traffic accident.
(c) Suicide.
(d) House fire.

3. What does Midori ask Toru to explain to her as they walk through Ochanomizu Station?
(a) The nature vs. nurture debate.
(b) Gravity.
(c) The Pythagorean theorem.
(d) The subjunctive case.

4. What does Toru usually do on Sundays?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Visit his family.
(c) Study.
(d) Volunteers at a soup kitchen.

5. What does Toru dream of his first night in the girls' apartment?
(a) Snow.
(b) Willows.
(c) Playing tennis.
(d) Kizuki's motorcycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toru name his cat?

2. What kind of nuts do Midori and Toru eat at DUG?

3. What language is Nagasawa teaching himself in Chapter 8?

4. What does Toru order for dinner at the French restaurant?

5. What was the age difference between Naoko and her sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Midori describe her father's funeral?

2. Where did Hatsumi learn to play pool?

3. What happens the first time Toru sees Nagasawa after the celebration dinner?

4. What is Toru's answer to Hatsumi's question of why he sleeps with random girls when he doesn't find much pleasure in it?

5. Describe Toru's apartment.

6. Describe Naoko's sister.

7. What kind of student was the young girl Reiko taught?

8. What does Toru usually do on Sundays?

9. How does Toru get Midori's father to eat?

10. What is Naoko and Reiko's first morning job?

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