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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Oizumi admit to the narrator?

2. What reason does the narrator give Mrs. Masakado for leaving the surveillance job?

3. What does the narrator ask her boss about personal mail deliveries?

4. What ad does the narrator delete from the files in "The Bus Advertising Job"?

5. Who is Ms. Eriguchi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Yamae being surveilled?

2. Who is Yamae Yamamoto?

3. Who is Mrs. Masakado?

4. What strange occurances does the narrator notice at her job?

5. Who does Mr. Kazetani tell the narrator to keep an eye on?

6. Why does Yamae get a new coffee maker?

7. What is the first job the narrator has in the book?

8. What is found hidden in one of Yamae's DVD cases?

9. What does Yamae collect?

10. What is the Albatross?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore the narrator's cracker packet job. What does she make of this job? Is her experience an overall positive or negative one?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore the narrator's reluctance to commit to a job. Why does the narrator continue to take on somewhat odd and temporary jobs instead of forging a definite career path?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the narrator's narrative tone. What is the nature of this tone? In what ways does the tone(s) support the themes of the novel?

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