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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter III, "Lovers".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Besides Japanese culture, which other culture does the narrator say is especially fond of insects?
(a) Indonesian.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Polynesian.
(d) Korean.

2. When Yukio apologizes to his mother and asks for her forgiveness, what is he responding to?
(a) Kinuyo knows she is about to die and that Yukio is not trying to prevent this.
(b) Kinuyo would suffer deeply should Yukio choose not return to the future.
(c) Kinuyo knows her son has been lying to her about his success.
(d) Kinuyo would be less lonely should Yukio choose to stay in the past with her.

3. Who saved Yukio's life by performing CPR on him when he nearly drowned?
(a) A passerby.
(b) Kyoko.
(c) Seiichi.
(d) Kinuyo.

4. What happens immediately after Yukio leaves the café to make a phone call?
(a) Nagare bumps into him on the stairs.
(b) Kazu locks the outer door.
(c) He realizes that he has left his phone inside.
(d) The ghost gets up from her seat.

5. Who asks Kazu about her age?
(a) Nagare.
(b) Miki.
(c) Kyoko.
(d) Kiyoshi.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Gohtaro returns to the present, what is the first thing that he wants to do?

2. How old was Yukio when he accepted the wholesaler's offer?

3. What illness did Yukio contract when he was two years old?

4. What language does Miki use a few words from when she comes into the café?

5. What is implied when the narrator says that, upon hearing of his mother's death, Yukio "heard a tautly stretched string snapping inside his head" (66)?

(see the answer key)

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