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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens on December 8th?
(a) Japan and America sign a peace treaty.
(b) Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
(c) America attacks Kobe.
(d) America attacks Hiroshima.

2. What transportation do the American troops use?
(a) Jeeps and covered trucks.
(b) Tanks.
(c) They are on foot.
(d) Motorbikes.

3. What wakes H and his friends up from their slumber?
(a) A hail storm.
(b) An air raid alert.
(c) H's mother.
(d) An angry Instructor Tamori.

4. Why are the clubs being disbanded?
(a) The Americans have banned all gatherings.
(b) To avoid suspicion of military training.
(c) Students are too busy rebuilding Kobe.
(d) There is no money for club activities.

5. What is considered "un-Japanese" at school?
(a) Singing German music.
(b) Learning about foreign cultures.
(c) Talking about America or Britain.
(d) Wearing clothes that is not made out of khaki.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ishizuka live?

2. What happens on H's eleventh birthday?

3. What did Tamori's wife supposedly do?

4. Why is Morio's apprentice, Shige, crying when H returns home from school one day?

5. When are the occupational forces scheduled to arrive in Kobe?

(see the answer key)

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