The Man in the High Castle | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapter 1

1. What is Childan in the business of selling?

2. What is Childan upset over as the novel opens?

3. Why does Childan most likely have the fresh marigolds and background music playing in his shop?

4. What do phrases like "the fussy, brisk voice," "barely polite," and "deliberately mispronounced his name" initially tell us about Tagomi's character?

5. How do the Kasouras differ from Tagomi in their treatment of Childan?

6. How does Mrs. Kasoura seem to Childan?

7. Why has Paul Kasoura come to San Francisco?

8. How is the city of San Francisco described?

9. According to Childan, what is special about some of the people his shop gives him the...
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