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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. Who is Yamagishi Katsura?
(a) Kyoko's father.
(b) The ghost's husband.
(c) A studio potter.
(d) Kazu's boyfriend.

2. What lie does Gohtaro tell Shuichi about his reason for coming into the past?
(a) He claims that he was curious to try traveling through time.
(b) He claims that he simply wanted advice from an old friend.
(c) He claims that Haruka wanted to be sure her birth father knew about her wedding.
(d) He claims that future-Shuichi asked him to do it.

3. What is a "mimetic expression" (47)?
(a) One that imitates a feeling generated by the thing it names.
(b) One that conveys emphasis by understating a feeling.
(c) One that conveys a comparison indirectly.
(d) One that imitates the sound of the thing it names.

4. What does Gohtaro surmise about the woman who seems to be the girl's mother from her conversation with Nagare?
(a) She dislikes the café.
(b) She is in poor health.
(c) She has a secret sorrow.
(d) She is a neglectful parent.

5. What is the name of the time-traveling café?
(a) Funiculi Funicula.
(b) Auld Lang Syne.
(c) Que Sera Sera.
(d) Hakuna Matata.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kyoko's reaction to Kazu asking about her brother?

2. What error does Gohtaro almost make when he sees how red Shuichi's eyes are after Shuichi understands that Gohtaro has come back in time?

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

4. When does Kazu tell Miki she will be old enough to pour the coffee?

5. What does Gohtaro notice hanging on the café wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Shuichi's and Gohtaro's lives take different paths after college?

2. What has fatherhood been like for Gohtaro?

3. What does Kyoko reveal about her brother's reaction to their mother's death?

4. What details at the beginning of the story convey to the reader that Kyoto is a regular customer at the café?

5. When Gohtaro tells Shuichi, "Haruka has decided to get married," how does the narrator explain Shuichi's reaction, and what does the reader later learn is the real reason for his reaction?

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

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

8. What reason does the narrator give for Kiyoshi asking his question of the café staff?

9. When Gohtaro wakes up just after eight o'clock, what does Miki try to do, and how do her father and Kazu react?

10. Which characteristics of Shuichi's give Gohtaro "grounds for faith" that Shuichi will quickly understand that Gohtaro has traveled back in time (31)?

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