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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 – Grievances (May 1973).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Shizuko, what is the best kind of pottery?
(a) The kind that you could use every day.
(b) The kind covered in flowers.
(c) The kind sold at department stores.
(d) The kind that you get in China.

2. Who writes Yuki a letter in Chapter 4?
(a) Miss Uozumi.
(b) Hideki.
(c) Shizuko.
(d) Aya.

3. Select the character below who says, "I don't pretend. I hate you."
(a) Hanae.
(b) Yuki.
(c) Masa.
(d) Hideki.

4. Why does her Aunt Aya ask Yuki to change her clothes before the wake?
(a) Aya thinks that Shizuko would not have approved of Yuki's dress.
(b) Aya thinks that Yuki's dress is too short.
(c) Aya thinks that Yuki's dress is too tight.
(d) Aya thinks that Yuki's dress is not dark enough.

5. As Yuki recovers from her sprained ankle in Chapter 9, what does she draw in her sketchbook?
(a) A staircase that stretches up into the dark.
(b) Shizuko's many smiles and expressions.
(c) Pictures of irises in the rain.
(d) The clothes Shizuko handmade for Yuki.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do some of Yuki's friends in homemaking class fix their poor sewing?

2. In what month does Chapter 6, Sundays, begin?

3. How has Yuki spent her summer Sundays?

4. What does Yuki think would have happened if she had told the truth about her mother's death to Sachiko and Mrs. Murai?

5. Why does Hanae decide to keep the persimmon teapot in the kitchen?

(see the answer key)

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