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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. Which of the following does not describe what Eiji finds when he finally meets his father?
(a) His father argues via telephone with his stepmother.
(b) His father orders a pizza which Eiji delivers.
(c) Eiji's father hugs him and arranges to meet him regularly.
(d) Eiji leaves without revealing who he is.

2. Why has Mrs. Yamaya not been able to get the authorities to make use of the data she has gathered about the yakuza?
(a) She is in hiding.
(b) The yakuza own the police and politicians.
(c) The data is hidden in a place guarded by the yakuza.
(d) The yakuza are blackmailing her.

3. What action does Eiji take after receiving the address from Daimon?
(a) He goes to the address in person.
(b) He writes the detecting asking for help locating his father.
(c) He hires a personal detective to go to the address.
(d) He sends Buntaro to check out the address.

4. What does Eiji find in the secret room of the unfamiliar house?
(a) A gun.
(b) Mrs. Sasaki's old love letters.
(c) A book manuscript written by Mrs. Sasaki's sister.
(d) A dead body.

5. Which of the following is not a reason Mrs. Yamaya has sent information about yakuza activities to Eiji?
(a) She wants the yakuza to come after Eiji.
(b) She has sent information posthumously.
(c) Eiji shares the first name of her dead son.
(d) She has sent information to people she hopes will act on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does not describe how Eiji sabotages the yakuza at the end of Chapter Seven?

2. What kind of manager is Sachiko Sera at Nero's?

3. Who is Eiji's third dream in Chapter Eight about?

4. What have the yakuza done to Mrs. Yamaya because of her attempts to use the information she has gathered about their activities?

5. What does Suga give Eiji before he leaves for his new job?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Eiji's final dream about Anju in which Anju tells him to go away so he will not drown, too?

2. 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?

3. Describe Eiji's dream about Mr. Aoyama.

4. Why does Suga get drunk and how does his failure to succeed in his quest parallel Eiji's?

5. 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?

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

7. Describe Eiji's dream about John Lennon and Lennon's song "#9 Dream".

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

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

10. How does Daimon help Eiji's search for his father?

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