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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens when the mistress sees Joncour at the party?
2. What year is it when the novel begins?
3. What present does the mistress have for Joncour after the party at Hara Kei's house?
4. How much money does Joncour have for his trip to Japan?
5. What would happen to the Japanese if they immigrated?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Joncour observe life? Why is this significant?
2. When Baldabiou first broaches the idea of going to Japan for silk eggs, why do the local silk manufacturers not know anything about Japan?
3. Describe how silk eggs hatch and what happens to them.
4. Why does Joncour arrive in Hara Kei's village on foot? What message is he sending to the mistress?
5. How much of the year does Joncour work? How much time does he have for leisure? Describe his work routine.
6. After his travels to Africa, how does Joncour describe his trip when someone asks? Why does he not give a better description?
7. What is Madame Blanche's calling card? What does she give the men she sleeps with?
8. When Hara Kei asks Joncour who he is, what does he tell him? Why does he give so much detail? Is it necessary to tell the whole truth? Why does Joncour do this?
9. How many silk eggs can you hold in your hands? Why did they refer to this as "a fortune in your hands"?
10. When Hara Kei tells Joncour that the mistress "doesn't speak your language", is he referring to more that French? What is he trying to tell Joncour?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do the two English characters, the one in France at the party, and the one in the Japanese village, have in common? How are they different? Why do you think the author introduced these two characters, one in each country, to play off the main characters? What do they bring to the story? How would the story have been different without them?
Essay Topic 2
Joncour is a hero to his town, giving nearly all the town a way to make a living, and yet, he blindly pursues the mistress, knowing full well that he could lose everything for his town. Why does Joncour, in chapter after chapter, move toward his own destruction with little or no reservation to the damage he will do to his town or his wife? How can this man be so blind?
Essay Topic 3
Why do Joncour and his wife travel? What does this bring to their relationship? In the end, when Joncour stops traveling, why does he decide to do this? Why, in his later years, does he not enjoy traveling and seeing new places? Why does he never return to Japan in later years when the journey is easier?
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