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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21 | Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does H deal with all the new censorship and laws?
(a) H disobeys any new law that is made.
(b) H decides to give up sketching anything but sumo wrestlers.
(c) H spys on the military and sells the information to his friends.
(d) H decides to learn a new skill to help his country.

2. What rule of his mothers is H embarrassed about?
(a) H must go home directly from school before going to the beach.
(b) H must join his mother at Church every morning for prayer.
(c) H must finish his milk before he can go out and play.
(d) H must read the Bible for an hour as soon as he returns from school.

3. What does H hear the local housewives say about the operators of those boxes?
(a) The operators overcharge.
(b) The operators will sometimes run off with children.
(c) The operators often smell because they never visit the bathhouse.
(d) The operators are not to be trusted.

4. What is the rumor going around H's school?
(a) The American military is planning an invasion.
(b) H's family are spies.
(c) The war is over.
(d) H's English teacher is a spy.

5. Why does Morio want to become a fireman?
(a) To gain more meaning in his life.
(b) To impress his wife.
(c) To help his neighbors in a more heroic way.
(d) To avoid being forced to work in a factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does H disapprove of people being anti-British?

2. What is the National Dress Order?

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

4. What do H and his friends do when "words of enemy origin" are not allowed?

5. Why does H get angry at the newspapers?

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