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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 is Eiji's fourth dream in Chapter Eight about?
(a) Anju and her death.
(b) Yoko Ono.
(c) His father and stepmother.
(d) John Lennon and his song #9 Dream.

2. What does Eiji's grandfather loan Eiji?
(a) A family photo album.
(b) Money.
(c) His most prized possession, his dead brother's journal.
(d) A car.

3. Where do Ai Imajo and Eiji have breakfast in Chapter Seven?
(a) The Jupiter Cafe.
(b) The Amadeus Tea Room.
(c) McDonald's.
(d) The PanOpticon Building.

4. Who does Ai Imajo urge Eiji to meet?
(a) His stepmother.
(b) His father.
(c) His half-sister.
(d) His mother.

5. Who meets Eiji when he is expecting to meet his grandfather instead?
(a) His stepmother and half-sister.
(b) His grandfather's attorney.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Admiral Raizo say Eiji and his grandfather both want?

2. Which of the following is not a way the yakuza trick Eiji in Chapter Seven?

3. In Chapter Five, who faxes Eiji a message that he is coming to visit at six o'clock?

4. What strange things does Ai say are happening in Tokyo when she and Eiji talk by telephone at the end of Chapter Eight?

5. Who does Eiji call to share the good news about the response to his newspaper ad?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Eiji's relationship with Ai Imajo change in Chapter Five?

2. How does Eiji's grandfather show that he approves of Eiji?

3. Who meets Eiji at the Amadeus Tea Room instead of his grandfather on the day of his second meeting with the older man, and why does his grandfather not meet him then as planned?

4. How is the manuscript Eiji finds about Goatwriter an allegory for Eiji's own adventures?

5. How does Eiji finally get to meet his father, and how does he feel after the meeting?

6. In Chapter Five, from whom does Eiji receive a postcard, and how does the card indicate a shift in the writer's attitude toward Eiji?

7. What secrets does Ai Imajo reveal about herself in Chapter Six, and what do her revelations indicate about her changing relationship with Eiji?

8. Why is Eiji's grandfather disappointed in Eiji's father?

9. Who is Subaru Tsukiyama and what is his relationship to Eiji?

10. What does Mrs. Yamaya's letter in Chapter Seven reveal about her relationship with the yakuza?

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