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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does H draw sketches of during a stop?
(a) Yoshiko standing next to the train.
(b) The conductor.
(c) The train's engine.
(d) The foreigners at the train stop.

2. What does a record with a red label indicate?
(a) It is made in China.
(b) It is a religious record.
(c) It is made in America.
(d) It is a special edition.

3. What does the Gokoku Shrine contain?
(a) The spirit of the war dead.
(b) The personal effects of deceased soldiers.
(c) The spirit of the Kobe ancestors.
(d) The crosses taken down from all the churches.

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

5. What two sports are banned?
(a) Soccer and Karate.
(b) Tennis and baseball.
(c) Basketball and Squash.
(d) Badminton and Swimming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Japan experiencing a shortage of?

2. What does Toshiko need to convince her neighbors to do?

3. At the firing range, why are many of the shooters' bullets missing the target?

4. Why does Yoshiko take the broken fork?

5. In Chapter 23, What does H do instead of studying?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Instructor Tamori a popular teacher at H's school?

2. What do new members of the riding club at Second Middle School have to do that the older members don't? What do the older members get to do that the new members don't?

3. What is H's attitude towards school attendance?

4. H's emotional state is unstable. What does he like to do to cheer himself up?

5. Why does H respect Instructor Hisakado?

6. Did H make the right decision by returning to Kobe?

7. How does H show compassion for his friend Girly Boy?

8. What is Morio bothered by in chapter 45?

9. What does Toshiko struggle with in Chapter 19?

10. Why do Mr. Naito and Mr. Matsumoto help H graduate?

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