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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Winter: December 5 through December 25, 1937.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Stephen travel to Kobe with?
(a) Ching.
(b) Henry.
(c) His father.
(d) Penelope.

2. 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.

3. How does Sachi say Tomoko died?
(a) She took her life with a fishing knife.
(b) The disease killed her.
(c) She drowned herself.
(d) She was poisoned.

4. What does Matsu reveal about his younger sister while he is in Yamaguchi with Stephen?
(a) She was taken by leprosy.
(b) She died of tuberculosis.
(c) She was a healer.
(d) She died giving birth to a son.

5. What is Stephen's first impression of the person who meets him at the station?
(a) That he yearns for company.
(b) That he enjoys solitude.
(c) That he has a secret.
(d) That he is an angry man.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stephen get to Kobe?

2. Where does Stephen's father spend most of his time?

3. What does Sachi tell Stephen when she learns that Matsu was unaware of this visit?

4. Why do Stephen and Matsu initially go to Yamaguchi?

5. What, according to Sachi, is true about Sachi and Tomoko as children?

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