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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 the first thing that Shuichi wants to know once he understands that Gohtaro has come from the future?
(a) Whether something has happened to his daughter, Haruka.
(b) How many years in the future Gohtaro came from.
(c) What time travel does to a person's body and if Gohtaro feels okay.
(d) Whether time travel works in the opposite direction.

2. What does Gohtaro do for a living?
(a) He runs a restaurant.
(b) He is a farmer.
(c) He is a web developer.
(d) He is an interpreter.

3. What is Kiyoshi Manda's job?
(a) Firefighter.
(b) Social worker.
(c) Homicide detective.
(d) Emergency room physician.

4. How old is Gohtaro's daughter?
(a) 25.
(b) Nearly 19.
(c) Nearly 23.
(d) 21.

5. How long has Gohtaro been lying to his daughter?
(a) 17 years.
(b) 27 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 22 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the woman in white doing when Gohtaro is talking with Kyoko and Kazu?

2. What does Gohtaro surmise about the woman who seems to be the girl's mother from her conversation with Nagare?

3. Which best describes Shuichi's reaction when he returns from the restroom and sees the much-older Gohtaro?

4. When Gohtaro and Shuichi first meet again in the past, how does Gohtaro see himself acting in front of his old friend?

5. Who convinces Gohtaro to finally go inside the café?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the subject of Kyoko's son Yohsuke come up in conversation?

2. When Shuichi tells Haruka in his message, "If it is for you, I can do anything," what does this foreshadow (36)?

3. Describe the atmosphere of the time-traveling café.

4. How did Gohtaro end up raising Shuichi's daughter?

5. Why does Kazu sound stern when she tells Gohtaro, "You know that even if your return to the past, reality won't change, right?" (13)?

6. How does the exchange between Kyoko and Kazu about Kazu's boyfriend characterize both women?

7. Before Gohtaro goes into the past, what is his plan to deal with the revelations that will occur upon Haruka's marriage?

8. When Gohtaro first sees Shuichi in the past, why does the gesture of putting his hand around his coffee cup cause Gohtaro to suddenly panic about his own ability to communicate?

9. Why does the narrator use vague language to describe the tears falling during the encounter between Shuichi and Gohtaro?

10. How did Kyoko end up becoming a regular at the café, and why does her son not come with her anymore?

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