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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Autumn: September, 1938.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Stephen tell his mother about his father's affair?
(a) That the transferred money was for a business transaction.
(b) That she should accept it and move on.
(c) That his father refused to talk about it.
(d) Nothing.

2. What does the throwing of beans represent?
(a) The Japanese Army winning the war.
(b) Prosperity, purity, longevity, and loyalty.
(c) Celebration of the first rites of spring.
(d) Throwing out the demons, cold, and pestilence.

3. To whose grave does Matsu take an offering?
(a) Hiro's.
(b) Kenzo's.
(c) Fumiko's.
(d) Tomoko's.

4. What does Sachi say Matsu told her when he discovered she ran away rather than take her own life?
(a) One sister lost is enough.
(b) It takes more courage to live than to die.
(c) My soul is grateful you could not act.
(d) There is a place you can go.

5. What does Stephen decide to paint?
(a) His family.
(b) Keiko at the beach.
(c) Sachi without her sores.
(d) Matsu's garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Stephen and Matsu spend the night after they help fight the fire in Yamaguchi?

2. What is the Kerria plant a sign of when it blooms late in the year?

3. What does Kenzo give Stephen?

4. What does Stephen learn during his father's second visit, which occurs in December of 1937?

5. What object of Tomoko's did Matsu give to Sachi?

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