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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. What is Japan experiencing a shortage of?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Farm equipment.
(c) Tin.
(d) Cotton.

2. What two sports are banned?
(a) Badminton and Swimming.
(b) Soccer and Karate.
(c) Tennis and baseball.
(d) Basketball and Squash.

3. What do H and his friends do when "words of enemy origin" are not allowed?
(a) Use the words anyways.
(b) Rat out classmates who don't follow the rules.
(c) Use substitute words.
(d) Hold a protest.

4. What does H hear the local housewives say about the operators of those boxes?
(a) The operators often smell because they never visit the bathhouse.
(b) The operators will sometimes run off with children.
(c) The operators are not to be trusted.
(d) The operators overcharge.

5. What are octopus pots also known as?
(a) Chamber pots.
(b) Fish bowls.
(c) Foxholes.
(d) Squid puddles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the vice-principal say when H asks why students are not allowed to look at the photographs of the Emperor and Empress at school?

2. Who is responsible for the Japanese language changes?

3. Why are H and Yoshiko going on a train?

4. Why does Yoshiko take the broken fork?

5. Why do the police take Morio in for questioning?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does H act selfishly in chapter 36?

2. How does H turn a bad situation into a good one in Chapter 13?

3. Why is Yasuo's father not angry when the boys take the boat?

4. Of all the things in the house, including his precious books, why does H try to save his father's sewing machine?

5. What evidence of H's fragile emotional state do we see in chapter 47?

6. What changes occur in Kobe in preparation for the American forces?

7. How are H and Mrs. Tazaki different?

8. Who is Noodles?

9. What scares H at the campaign speech?

10. In what way do we again see H's resourcefulness in chapter 44?

(see the answer keys)

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