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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. Why does H disapprove of people being anti-British?
(a) H's favorite music comes from Britain.
(b) H's father has many British customers.
(c) H has family living in Britain.
(d) H's best friend is British

2. Why does H lurk outside the movie theater instead of going inside?
(a) H's mother told him never to go into the theater.
(b) H isn't interested in watching movies.
(c) H doesn't want to run into Girly Boy.
(d) H never has enough money to see a film.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rumor going around the school in Chapter 26?

2. Who dies in Chapter 24?

3. What does H do to Girly Boy at the bathhouse?

4. What does a record with a red label indicate?

5. What are octopus pots also known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes occur in Kobe in preparation for the American forces?

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

3. What are war bonds?

4. Morio spends many days repairing his sewing machine, even though it seems like a lost cause by others. What does this say about Morio's character?

5. How does the meaning of the phoenix relate to H?

6. How does H demonstrate his resourcefulness in Chapter 5?

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

8. How does H feel about his teachers being called to the front?

9. Why does H suspect that the Japanese army is the real enemy?

10. What is it about his instructors that disgusts H?

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