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

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

3. What career advice does Toru Okada recall Mr. Honda giving in Chapter 4?
(a) He should become a public defender.
(b) He should start showing up late to work.
(c) He should ask for a raise.
(d) He should quit law.

4. Who is the prophesied caller beginning with "O" that calls Toru Okada in Chapter 1?
(a) Omura Liquor.
(b) His cousin Oni.
(c) His uncle.
(d) A business based in Osaka.

5. Topographically, where is the town in which May Kasahara is working in Chapter 5?
(a) By the woods.
(b) In the lowlands.
(c) In the mountains.
(d) On the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Toru Okada discover in the well in Chapter 8?

2. What does Creta Kano cook for breakfast in Chapter 13?

3. Who pulls the rope ladder up from the well in Chapter 9?

4. What town is Toru Okada in when Kumiko call to tell him she had an abortion?

5. What sensation is Creta Kano surprised to feel when Noboru Wataya has sex with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What painful admission does May Kasahara make in Chapter 15?

2. What does the unnamed boy see in Chapter 3?

3. What happens when Toru goes to the appointed address in Chapter 4?

4. Why does Toru Okada choose to go into the well behind the old Miyawaki house?

5. Describe Toru Okada's dream at the end of Chapter 16?

6. Why do Koru and Kumiko Okada meet with Mr. Honda?

7. How does the infant Nutmeg nearly killed in the story of Chapter 9?

8. Why is Lieutenant Mamiya uncomfortable with his mission with Yanamoto?

9. Why does Creta Kano become a prostitute?

10. Describe the marital tiff the Okada's have as related in Chapter 9?

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