Whose collection contains Mrs. Saeki's hit song on vinyl?

• A. Kafka's mother
• B. Oshima's mother
• C. Nakata's mother
• D. Hoshino's mother

Answer: (B)

The idea being tested is how objects tied to a character’s past show up in the lives of others, linking people through memory and art. In the story, Miss Saeki’s hit song on vinyl is described as part of a collection owned by Oshima’s mother. This detail highlights how a piece of Miss Saeki’s history travels into another family’s daily world, underscoring Murakami’s motif of artifacts carrying memory across people and generations. The other options don’t fit the text’s specifics, since none of those mothers are connected to Miss Saeki’s vinyl collection in the story.