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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kinshi do instead of what he says he is going to do?
(a) Takes food to Jiro's mothre.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Sneaks to the upstairs warehouse.
(d) Writes in his journal.

2. What does Jiro ask Kinshi after the performance?
(a) To see if Yoshida will excuse Kenshi from the play.
(b) If Kinshi is ill.
(c) To go with Jiro to see Jiro's mother.
(d) Not to go out again that night.

3. What does Yoshida tell the boys to get?
(a) Some rice.
(b) Some sleep.
(c) Mallets.
(d) Some newly-made fish balls.

4. What does Mochida ask Jiro the next morning?
(a) If Kanshi is ill.
(b) Why Kanshi fell asleep at practice the day before.
(c) Why Kanshi seems always tired.
(d) Where Kanshi is.

5. What does Yoshida eventually decide to do?
(a) Defy the authorities.
(b) Appeal to the Emperor.
(c) Appeal to the Shogun.
(d) Put on a play called The Battle of Dannoura.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Okada ask Jiro to do?

2. How does Kinshi get out of his chores?

3. What does Mochida explain to Jiro?

4. What does the Samurai tell Yoshida?

5. How does Yoshida praise the assistant magistrate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the assistant magistrate first tell Yoshida and what does the assistant magistrate later say?

2. What is pinned on the door of the theater and how does Yoshida respond?

3. What wakes Jiro in the night and what is the outcome?

4. What does Hanji tell Jiro and offer to do, and what is Jiro's response?

5. How does Jiro discover a Samurai sword?

6. What does Jiro beg Kinshi to do and what is Kinshi's reply?

7. What does Jiro conclude after seeing the Samurai sword?

8. How does Jiro arrange the meeting with Okada?

9. How does Yoshida react when his play is shut down and what does he decide to do?

10. What part is Kinshi assigned in the new play and what does Jiro learn as they go to get puppets for Kinshi to practice?

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