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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Instructor Tamori's job?
(a) English teacher.
(b) Military trainer.
(c) Homeroom teacher.
(d) Head of the rifle club.

2. What does the vice-principal say when H asks why students are not allowed to look at the photographs of the Emperor and Empress at school?
(a) The vice-principal tells H that the Emperor is a living god.
(b) The vice-principal tells H that the Emperor and Empress are too important to be looked at directly.
(c) The vice-principal tells H to stop asking questions.
(d) The vice-principal tells H that the students should look to the Emperor with their hearts, not their eyes.

3. Why does H believe Germany is not to be trusted?
(a) Germany is betraying Japan when Japan needs them the most.
(b) H secretly read an anti-German newspaper article.
(c) A German tourist stole his uncle's bicycle.
(d) The German army has attacked Japan in the past.

4. Why does Toshiko think that Shige-san is not qualified for the apprenticeship?
(a) Shige-san is very poor at math, and is unable to perform the simplist calculations.
(b) Shige-san is known to be a lazy and irresponsible worker.
(c) Shige-san has a bad leg and his body tilts to one side when he walks.
(d) Shige-san acts inappropriately towards Toshiko when Moiro is not around.

5. Who is rescued by a German military unit?
(a) Prime Minister Tojo.
(b) Mussolini.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Toshiko.

6. Why does the owner of the noodle restaurant give H and his mother a free meal?
(a) H offers advice that improves a dish.
(b) H and his mother are regular customers.
(c) H does a trick for the restaurant owner.
(d) H and his mother look hungry and poor.

7. What does H decide to start a business doing?
(a) Decorating the "flower cars" with his drawings in exchange for free rides.
(b) Exchanging pictures of "flower cars" with whatever he can get.
(c) Stealing matches and selling them to his friends.
(d) Drawing portraits of people at the anniversary celebration.

8. Why does Toshiko approve of Donchan and H's friendship?
(a) Toshiko approves because Donchan keeps H out of trouble.
(b) Toshiko approves because she is best friends with Donchan's mother.
(c) Toshiko approves because Donchan is from a strict Christian family.
(d) Toshiko approves because Donchan enjoys reading and speaks politely.

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

10. What puzzles H about his teacher?
(a) H's teacher is lazier than his students.
(b) H's teacher gives him good grades no matter what.
(c) H's teacher never loses his temper.
(d) H's teacher did not tell his mother about the lie he told.

11. According to Morio, who caused the flood?
(a) The Devil.
(b) Human beings.
(c) The Chinese.
(d) God.

12. What does public opinion think of the possibility of war with America?
(a) It has already started.
(b) It is inevitable.
(c) It will never happen.
(d) It might happen.

13. Why does H get angry at the newspapers?
(a) The newspapers do not report the fatality in the bombing raid.
(b) The newspapers publish a story falsely incriminating one of Moiro's friends.
(c) The newspapers ignore the hardwork of Kobe's women.
(d) The newspapers lie and say that America is on the brink of surrendering.

14. What will happen if more bombs are dropped?
(a) The number of fires will increase.
(b) Morio will protest in the streets.
(c) The newspapers will finally tell the truth.
(d) H and his family will move to the country.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Kamikera?

2. What happens with H's first shot?

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

4. Why are H and Yoshiko going on a train?

5. Why does H run away when he hears tambourines and drums approaching?

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