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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 bought the café's Christmas tree?
(a) Kazu.
(b) Nagare's wife.
(c) Kazu's boyfriend.
(d) Nagare.
2. What order is Kyoko waiting for at the beginning of the story?
(a) Her usual coffee.
(b) Daifuku for her husband.
(c) A Christmas cake.
(d) A to-go breakfast.
3. What surprising event ends this story?
(a) Miki runs away.
(b) Kazu gets engaged.
(c) Kaname disappears.
(d) Nagare retires.
4. What does Asami show Kurata soon after meeting him in the café?
(a) A photograph.
(b) A funeral program.
(c) A wedding ring.
(d) A Christmas gift.
5. In Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, where do Tyltyl and Mytyl encounter the child with the terrible fate?
(a) The Kingdom of Sorrow.
(b) The Kingdom of the Future.
(c) The Kingdom of the Enchanters.
(d) The Kingdom of Desire.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is the startled man who exclaims when Kiyoshi appears in the café in the past?
2. What does Kazu ask Yukio just before she pours the coffee?
3. Just before he lifts his coffee to drink it and return to his own time, what does Kurata hand to Miki?
4. What distinctive item of clothing does Kiyoshi wear?
5. How long ago did Kiyoshi's wife die?
Short Essay Questions
1. What role did Kinuyo play in Kazu's recovery from her mother's death?
2. What is so tricky about Kurata's time-travel plans, and how has he tried to plan ahead to overcome this difficulty?
3. When Miki writes her wish that Nagare would become happy, how does Nagare react?
4. How did Yukio's perception of his own circumstances change over the years of his apprenticeship?
5. How do Yukio's actions and emotions during the scene where he first sits down in the time-travel chair foreshadow his plan to not return to the present?
6. Why does Kimiko have such a strong emotional reaction to the gift from Kiyoshi?
7. A year prior to the events of "Husband and Wife," what does Kiyoshi see in the café and what does it make him realize is true?
8. What is Kurata wearing in the story's opening, and why does it make him seem out of place?
9. What does Kinuyo explain to Yukio about the silver stirrer, and what does he realize this means Kinuyo knows?
10. How did Kinuyo prove her devotion to her son over and over during his childhood?
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