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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the other boys do for Kinshi?
(a) Cover for him.
(b) There's nothing they can do for him.
(c) Find him a better-fitting harness.
(d) Keep him awake.

2. What does Jiro want his mother to do when he sees her in the audience?
(a) See his part in the play.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Leave.
(d) Come backstage after the performance.

3. How does Saburo's gang rob the merchant's house?
(a) They do so after putting the merchant in jail.
(b) They do not rob the merchant after he gives them some money that is on his person.
(c) By forcing the occupants to vacate the buildings with a search warrant.
(d) They only rob the livestock.

4. How is Yoshida after his play is shut down?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Angry.
(c) Relieved.
(d) Agrieved.

5. What does Jiro explain about Yoshida?
(a) What he has learned about Yoshida.
(b) That Yoshida saved him once.
(c) That he is afraid to confront Yoshida.
(d) That Yoshida will probably make Jiro leave the theater.

6. What is Jiro shocked when the play opens that night?
(a) His mother is there with his father.
(b) His father is there.
(c) There are few people in attendance.
(d) His brother is there.

7. What have some people started doing at night?
(a) Setting fire to weathly men's homes.
(b) Wandering the streets and throwing stones at wealthy men's homes.
(c) Gathering in secret groups.
(d) Helping Saburo's gang.

8. What does Jiro worry about concerning his mother?
(a) How to help her.
(b) How to find her a new husband.
(c) Her safety alone in the house.
(d) How to help her once she gives birth to her baby.

9. How does Kinshi get out of his chores?
(a) He says he needs to practice.
(b) He says he is sick.
(c) He volunteers to deliver an invitation from Yoshida.
(d) He volunteers to go to market.

10. How is Kinshi the next morning?
(a) Happy.
(b) Sick.
(c) Exhausted.
(d) Very depressed.

11. To whom does Jiro think it would be best to talk?
(a) Okada.
(b) Tozo.
(c) Mochida.
(d) His mother.

12. Where does Kinshi say it is forbidden to go?
(a) In the attic.
(b) In the upstairs storehouse.
(c) In the stable's loft.
(d) In the cellar.

13. What does Mochida say when he grabs Jiro?
(a) Yoshida wants to speak to him.
(b) He is needed to play Kenshi's role.
(c) Kenshi needs him at the river.
(d) His father is outside in the courtyard.

14. What does Jiro say when he asks to speak to Okada?
(a) It must happen that day.
(b) It is a matter of life and death.
(c) Jiro does not elaborate.
(d) He will have to leave the theater if he cannot speak with Okada.

15. Why is the merchant supposedly arrested?
(a) For bad scales.
(b) For cheating on his taxes.
(c) For ties to Saburo.
(d) For accepting bribes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jiro ask Kinshi after the performance?

2. What awakens Jiro in the middle of the night?

3. How is the play doing as Spring rolls around?

4. Where is the crest Jiro sees?

5. What does Yashida order Jiro to do?

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