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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, 'Night Rovers'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jiro decide to do on the New Year instead of celebrating with the others?
(a) Work overtime for some food for his mother.
(b) Go to talk to his brother.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Go see his mother.

2. Who is Mochida?
(a) A kind man who oversees the apprentices.
(b) Yoshida's tailor.
(c) The head of the blacksmith's guild.
(d) The head of the puppet's guild.

3. What tells Yoshida tell Jiro to do?
(a) To go home.
(b) To watch the play once to understand the plot.
(c) Get ready for the performance.
(d) To sit in the corner quietly until after the performance.

4. What does Jiro decide to do?
(a) Go to the big city to find work.
(b) Go offer himself as an apprentice to Yoshidaq.
(c) Apprentice himself to the blacksmith.
(d) Work a small plot of land near the forest.

5. Who is Kinshi?
(a) The son of Saburo.
(b) The boy Jiro saw being disciplined.
(c) A beggar boy Jiro meets at the blacksmith's stable.
(d) The blacksmith's son.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Yoshida find fault when he watches the boys' practice?

2. Who saves Jiro from a ronin?

3. How do the boys feel about Kinshi?

4. What does Okada tell Jiro to claim?

5. Why is Kinshi worried about his part in the next performance?

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