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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 50-51.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many silk eggs can a person hold in their hand?
(a) 1000s.
(b) Just 2.
(c) Millions.
(d) 100.

2. What kind of silkworm eggs does Joncour buy in 1861?
(a) Good eggs from France.
(b) Bad eggs.
(c) Very healthy eggs.
(d) Eggs from China.

3. At the house of Hara Kei, what does he have caged near the entrance?
(a) Exotic birds.
(b) Lions.
(c) Bears.
(d) Tigers.

4. What happens every time Hara Kei appears?
(a) The servants follow him.
(b) He is always dressed in red.
(c) The servants disappear.
(d) He has the mistress with him.

5. What does Joncour see when the procession with the mistress goes by him?
(a) The brightly-colored fabrics.
(b) The blue of the sky.
(c) The mistress' eyes.
(d) The flames of war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hara Kei say to Joncour about the fate of the boy who led Joncour to Hara Kei's procession?

2. What is Madame Blanche's street address?

3. What is Joncour wearing on the last leg of the journey into Japan?

4. What present does the mistress have for Joncour after the party at Hara Kei's house?

5. When Hara Kei was a child, his father told him to shoot an arrow into the air. What was Hara Hei supposed to do after that?

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