In the hotel room, Kafka reads a book from a famous collection of folk tales.

• A. The Odyssey
• B. Moby-Dick
• C. The Arabian Nights
• D. One Hundred Years of Solitude

Answer: (C)

Recognizing a famous folk-tale anthology is what this item tests. In Kafka on the Shore, Kafka reads a book from The Arabian Nights, the well-known collection of Middle Eastern folk tales (often called The Thousand and One Nights). That fits the clue because the prompt points to a renowned anthology of folktales, not to an epic or a single novel. The Odyssey is an ancient epic poem, Moby-Dick is about whaling, and One Hundred Years of Solitude is a modern magical realism novel; none of them are famous collections of folk tales. So The Arabian Nights is the best fit.