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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Sixty and Sixty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What almost intercepts the carrier pigeon with a message from Toranaga?
(a) Ishido's samurai.
(b) a hawk.
(c) a shot from a gun.
(d) a cat.

2. What does Blackthorne do when he realizes he is not going to be executed?
(a) goes to his room and yells.
(b) a series of back flips.
(c) makes an offering to the priest.
(d) a hornpipe dance.

3. What has been Toranaga's ambition all along?
(a) to protect Yaemon.
(b) to amass a great fortune trading.
(c) to become shōgun.
(d) to live in peace.

4. What country does Blackthorne say he is not an enemy of?
(a) Holland.
(b) the Friar's home country, Spain
(c) Japan.
(d) China.

5. Who is the pilot of the galley that will take Blackthorne to Osaka?
(a) an Englishman named Hyde-White.
(b) a Portuguese named Vasco Rodrigues.
(c) a Frenchman named LaSalle.
(d) a Chinese named Li Wang.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Blackthorne's position before the wreck of the Erasmus?

2. When they next meet, what does Blackthorne tell Mariko he understood at the party?

3. What causes Yabu to defy orders?

4. What gift does Rodrigues give Blackthorne that makes him suspicious?

5. While Yabu is telling Omi that the next battle will be fought at sea, what does he see entering the bay?

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