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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does May Kasahara invite Toru Okada to do the following day in Chapter 5?
(a) Join her administering surveys.
(b) Sunbathe with her.
(c) Go to church with her.
(d) Have lunch with her.

2. What sensation is Creta Kano surprised to feel when Noboru Wataya has sex with her?
(a) Pain.
(b) Numbness.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Heat.

3. Who is Malta Kano looking for when she calls Toru Okada at the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) Noboru Wataya.
(b) Mr. Honda.
(c) Creta Kano.
(d) Toru himself.

4. What dangerous animal survives the massacre in Chapter 9?
(a) Elephant.
(b) Rhino.
(c) Lynx.
(d) Lion.

5. In Chapter 12, Lieutenant Mamiya describes a secret mission he and Honda were a part of. What country did this mission illegally enter?
(a) Russia.
(b) Korea.
(c) Mongolia.
(d) India.

6. What is the only piece of information printed on the card that the woman gives Toru in Chapter 2?
(a) An address.
(b) A name.
(c) A phone number.
(d) A title.

7. What is Toru Okada's duty working with May Kasahara in Chapter 9?
(a) Approaching men on the streets.
(b) Filing paperwork for her.
(c) Counting bald heads.
(d) Setting up wig displays.

8. For what does May Kasahara castigate Toru Okada in Chapter 5?
(a) Not washing his clothes.
(b) Giving up on finding his cat.
(c) Not showing up at work with her.
(d) Having too many women around him.

9. What changes about the style of writing in Chapter 3?
(a) It changes to French.
(b) It switches from prose to poetry.
(c) It is presented as a newspaper article.
(d) It changes to a third-person point of view.

10. In a reminiscence in Chapter 9, why does Kumiko refuse to speak to Toru Okada for three days?
(a) She gives no reason.
(b) He almost cheats on her.
(c) He quits his job.
(d) He breaks a family heirloom.

11. At the beginning of Chapter 11, what does Toru remember doing with his father as a child?
(a) Arguing.
(b) Playing cards on a sunny day.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Going to a baseball game.

12. How long have Kumiko and Toru Okada been married at the beginning of the novel?
(a) 10 months.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 6 years.

13. When Toru Okada is certain Kumiko is gone at the beginning of Book 2, what does he discover she has taken with her?
(a) All her shoes and dresses.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Her check-book.
(d) Their wedding album.

14. When dis Koru and Kumiko Okada stop taking to Kumiko's parents?
(a) After Koru quit his job.
(b) After Noburu Wataya began chieving success.
(c) After Kumiko's sister died.
(d) After Koru had a fight with her father.

15. What is Toru Okada cooking when he first receives a call from the mysterious woman in Chapter 1?
(a) Stir fry.
(b) Hot oatmeal.
(c) Spaghetti.
(d) Baked Chicken.

Short Answer Questions

1. Topographically, where is the town in which May Kasahara is working in Chapter 5?

2. In a letter Toru receives in Chapter 11, who does Kumiko say she is having an affair with?

3. What remembrance from the dead Honda does Lieutenant Mamiya give Toru Okada at the end of Chapter 13?

4. In Chapter 13, what memory of Yanamoto's death does in Lieutenant Mamiya say he will never forget?

5. In Chapter 16, Toru and the man with the guitar case fight with what weapon?

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