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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time does the temple bell usually ring?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

2. Where does a friend make reservations to meet Shingo after they have dinner and then sit in the bar?
(a) Shiodome geisha district.
(b) Tsukiji geisha district.
(c) Asakusa geisha district.
(d) Shimbashi geisha district.

3. What does Shingo's friend who is dying want Shingo to bring him?
(a) Sleeping pills.
(b) Potassium cyanide.
(c) Arsenic.
(d) Rat poison.

4. Where has Kinu moved?
(a) Numazu.
(b) Kasugai.
(c) Kobe.
(d) Chibe.

5. What music is Kikuko playing when Shingo calls her at her family's home?
(a) Beethoven.
(b) Chopin.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Bach.

6. How many buds did a dwarf tree have that sits in front of the tobacconist's shop before they were pinched off?
(a) 10.
(b) 40.
(c) 15-20.
(d) 20-30.

7. How old are the tulip trees in the garden where Shingo meets Kikuko?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 40 years.
(d) 60 years.

8. When did Viscount Takagi die?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1951.

9. How old was the president of a boat and yacht company who disappeared?
(a) 74,
(b) 69.
(c) 71.
(d) 67.

10. How many times had it snowed that spring?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 11-13.
(d) 5-8.

11. What do 5-6 men bring on board the train in Chapter 16?
(a) Cherry branches.
(b) Balls.
(c) Maple branches.
(d) Puppy.

12. Where is Shingo in his first dream in Chapter 12, Section 3?
(a) America.
(b) Osaka.
(c) Tokyo.
(d) France.

13. How old are the lotus seeds that a lotus doctor manages to get to blossom?
(a) 25 years old.
(b) 500 years old.
(c) 10 years old.
(d) 2,000 years old.

14. What anniversary of the Buddhist capital is being celebrated?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 500.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 700.

15. How many pistols does Shingo seem to have when he dreams he is a young army officer?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Ikeda wearing when Shingo goes to talk with Kinu about her pregnancy?

2. Who is the first person to read the paper in Chapter 13?

3. How old was a woman who disappeared with her husband?

4. How old was the grandfather who strangled his grandson?

5. What type of flowers now grow in front of the house that had sunflowers last year?

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