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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does not describe Suga's appearance in Chapter Two?
(a) He has a ponytail.
(b) He has eczema.
(c) He has long, dangly arms.
(d) He has a fat bellow but no butt.

2. Who is Wheatie?
(a) Eiji's landlord.
(b) Anju and Eiji's grandmother.
(c) Anju and Eiji's mother.
(d) Eiji's girlfriend.

3. Who does Eiji fantasize knocking out with the item in his toolbox?
(a) The receptionist, Akiko Kato's bioborg, and Akiko Kato.
(b) His boss, his landlord, and his father.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

4. Before leaving the video arcade in Chapter Three, with whom does Eiji get into a brief discussion?
(a) Suga.
(b) Buntaro.
(c) Mr. Aoyama.
(d) A slightly older Tokyo native waiting for his date.

5. With whom does Daimon seem to have tension at the Queen of Spades?
(a) Eiji.
(b) The owner.
(c) Velvet and Coffee.
(d) Miriam, one of the club's hostesses.

6. What draws Eiji's attention to one of the waitresses?
(a) The woman's dyed blonde hair.
(b) The woman's missing front teeth.
(c) The woman's short skirt.
(d) The woman's perfect neck.

7. Who is Akiko Kato?
(a) Eiji's birth mother.
(b) Eiji's grandmother.
(c) The woman Eiji hopes to date.
(d) An attorney who is Eiji's only lead to his father.

8. In Chapter Three, who accuses Eiji of spying on her for Daimon?
(a) Velvet.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Ai Imajo.

9. In Eiji's fantasy about Akiko Kato, what happens to the information he finds in her office?
(a) It's stolen from him before he can read it.
(b) The ink it's printed with disappears when exposed to air.
(c) It is accidentally shredded.
(d) It proves false and doesn't lead to his father.

10. What does Eiji do when he comes to Ai Imajo's assistance in Chapter Three?
(a) He overpowers the man with karate.
(b) He cowers under a table, deciding he can't help after all.
(c) He head butts the man who has been threatening Ai Imajo.
(d) He calls the police.

11. Instead of confronting Akiko, how does Eiji spend most of his afternoon in Chapter One?
(a) Daydreaming and watching the cafe customers and staff.
(b) Gambling at the race track.
(c) Drinking at a bar.
(d) Watching television.

12. To whom does Eiji think the messages about "Father" refer?
(a) His priest.
(b) His actual father.
(c) A mob godfather.
(d) God.

13. In what city does the book open?
(a) Kyoto.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) New York.
(d) Osaka.

14. What does Eiji find inside the file folder?
(a) A letter from his birth father.
(b) A bomb.
(c) A photo of his birth father and Akiko Kato.
(d) His birth certificate identifying his birth father.

15. How does Ai Imajo suggest that Eiji search for his father in Tokyo?
(a) By putting an ad in the newspaper's personal columns.
(b) By going on television.
(c) By seeing his mother and making her lead him to his father.
(d) By hiring a private detective.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what locale does Eiji sit and daydream about meeting Akiko Kato?

2. What errand does the attractive waitress leave to do?

3. What is the name of the building in which Akiko Kato works?

4. Why does Eiji do what he does to the thunder god's statue when he is eleven?

5. What happens to Anju when Eiji has to leave her to go on an overnight trip with his soccer team?

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