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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 – Tiptoes (April 1970).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does Shizuko write notes in Chapter 1?
(a) Miss Uozumi and her mother.
(b) Hideki and her mother.
(c) The village carpenter and Yuki.
(d) Hideki and Yuki.

2. Why do Yuki and Aunt Aya go to Kobe at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) They are there to attend the wedding of Hideki and his new bride. After the wedding, Yuki will move in with her father and new stepmother.
(b) They are there to visit Shizuko's grave. It is the first anniversary of her death.
(c) They are there to attend Yuki's grandmother's funeral.
(d) They are there for Yuki's piano recital. It is Yuki's first recital since her mother's death.

3. Where is the novel set in Chapter 1?
(a) Kobe.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Osaka.
(d) Hokkaido.

4. What does Yuki offer to do when she speaks to Shizuko on the phone in Chapter 1?
(a) Come home immediately and fix supper.
(b) Pay her piano teacher.
(c) Apologize for starting a fight at baseball practice.
(d) Collect cherry blossoms for a wreath.

5. Who rearranged furniture to prepare for the wake?
(a) The men.
(b) Yuki's grandmother and aunt.
(c) Yuki and her aunt.
(d) Yuki and her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which sentence best characterizes Yuki's behavior on the day of the wake?

2. Which character is introduced at the beginning of Chapter 3?

3. Where does the wedding of Hideki and his new bride take place?

4. Why does her Aunt Aya ask Yuki to change her clothes before the wake?

5. What do Yuki and her Aunt Aya do together just before the wake?

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