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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. Why doesn't Eiji confront Akiko Kato in Chapter One as he daydreams of doing?
(a) He finds a better source of information about his father.
(b) He is afraid to do so.
(c) He is waiting for the right moment.
(d) He finds his father without her.

2. What video game is Eiji playing at the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) Hercules and the Amazons.
(b) Soldiers of Glory.
(c) Zax Omega and Red Plague Moon.
(d) The Haunted Hotel.

3. Which of the following statements is not a part of the daydream Eiji has in Chapter One while he's in the restroom?
(a) Eiji follows Akiko Kato to a theater.
(b) Akiko Kato meets a government minister at the theater.
(c) Eiji fights a samurai warrior.
(d) The minister at the theater is Eiji's father.

4. What happens when Eiji asks for the file folder about his father?
(a) The yakuza burn it.
(b) The yakuza break his arm.
(c) It is given to him.
(d) He's told to leave before he's beaten senseless.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not something Anju can do at age eleven?

2. What birthday does Eiji celebrate at the beginning of Chapter Three?

3. What interrupts Eiji's playing of the video game Virtua Sapiens?

4. Who saves Eiji's life at the end of Chapter Four when bombs explode, killing the warring yakuza factions?

5. What does Eiji do when he comes to Ai Imajo's assistance in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Eiji think Miriam can lead him to his father and how does he pursue his father through her?

2. How does Morino trick Eiji with his father's photo in Chapter Four?

3. Describe the strange messages Eiji receives while using the ATM.

4. What is the yakuza and how is Daimon tied to the organization?

5. What rumors has Anju overheard about her mother?

6. What information does Ryutaro Morino have about Eiji's father and how does he obtain it?

7. What does the letter Eiji receives from his mother in Chapter Two reveal, and how does it make him feel about contacting his mother again?

8. Why do Donkey and Dowager call the waitress with the perfect neck a "hand cream model", and what does the depiction of the girl's hands in Chapter One really indicate?

9. Describe the letter Eiji receives from his stepmother in Chapter Three, and how it affects him.

10. Describe Eiji's coworkers at Ueno Station and his relationships with them.

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