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

2. According to H, what is the purpose of the news reports?
(a) To pass on accurate information.
(b) To build national morale.
(c) To make the enemy look bad.
(d) To confuse the reader.

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

4. What happens when Toshiko injures her back during an air raid drill?
(a) Association members stop by to check on her and bring sweet buns and candies.
(b) H must take over at the air raid drills.
(c) Toshiko spends three weeks in hospital.
(d) Morio quits his job at the fire station to look after her.

5. What does Hayashi warn H not to do?
(a) H should not go home past curfew.
(b) H should not read any English books.
(c) H should not sketch pictures of soldiers.
(d) H should not count the number of railroad cars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Ishizuka live?

3. Why is the English language banned?

4. Why does Yoshiko take the broken fork?

5. What is the Hoanden?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Toshiko and H hide some things under the floor of their house?

2. What does Toshiko do to promote Christianity in her home?

3. In what ways does H's bed wetting embarrass him?

4. Of all the things in the house, including his precious books, why does H try to save his father's sewing machine?

5. 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?

6. What is Morio bothered by in chapter 45?

7. What does Toshiko struggle with in Chapter 19?

8. Why is Yasuo's father not angry when the boys take the boat?

9. How does Yoshiko show her love for her brother?

10. Was H wounded in the war?

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