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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 is Japan experiencing a shortage of?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Farm equipment.
(c) Tin.
(d) Cotton.

2. What are octopus pots also known as?
(a) Squid puddles.
(b) Foxholes.
(c) Chamber pots.
(d) Fish bowls.

3. What does Tan Wantanabe teach?
(a) English grammar.
(b) Physical Education.
(c) History.
(d) Art.

4. Where does H tell his parents he is going when he visits Noodles?
(a) The bathhouse.
(b) The library.
(c) The neighbor's house.
(d) For a walk.

5. How does H afford to buy oyatsu?
(a) He trades the candy given to him by his mother with candy his friends buy from the sweetshop.
(b) He steals oyatsu from the sweetshop.
(c) He does chores for his father, who in turn gives him an allowance.
(d) He steals money from his mother's purse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does H hear the local housewives say about the operators of those boxes?

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

3. What did Tamori's wife supposedly do?

4. Why does Toshiko not want to buy the gas masks?

5. Why does the owner of the noodle restaurant give H and his mother a free meal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is H's new job in Chapter 50 a good fit for him?

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

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

4. What are war bonds?

5. What is Morio bothered by in chapter 45?

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

7. According to Morio, why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

8. Why does H object to his mother's act of charity in chapter 46?

9. What does Toshiko struggle with in Chapter 19?

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

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