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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ono advise Mrs. Kawakami to do?
(a) Hold out for a higher offer.
(b) Stand and fight for her place.
(c) Refuse to sell her place.
(d) Accept the builders' offer to buy her place.

2. Why does Noriko say that Ono is making progress?
(a) He's improved the house alone.
(b) He's learning to speak English.
(c) He's modernized his painting style.
(d) He's learning to cook.

3. How does Ono feel about the demonstrations in the streets?
(a) The Japanese are children learning democracy.
(b) They've gone too far.
(c) It is a great pity that people are being injured.
(d) They're an important expression of freedom of speech.

4. How does Noriko say Ono has behaved since his retirement?
(a) He tyrannizes her.
(b) He is sociable.
(c) He wanders.
(d) He mopes.

5. Why did Ono as a young boy dread his father's business meetings?
(a) He was being punished.
(b) The incense in the room made it hard to breathe.
(c) He couldn't understand what his father said.
(d) He hated his father.

6. Who does Ichiro's father, Suichi, think makes good role models for Ichiro?
(a) Ninja fighters.
(b) Samurai warriors.
(c) American heroes.
(d) Japanese heroes.

7. How does Noriko embarrass Ono in front of Mr. Mori?
(a) By implying that she would never marry.
(b) By disparaging their house.
(c) By insulting her father.
(d) By acting as if the marriage negotiations were settled.

8. What does Ono think about the return of the old floating world?
(a) It is just as well that it will not return.
(b) It may yet return.
(c) Ono will pray for its return.
(d) It would be better if it returned.

9. What does Ono promise Ichiro as a reward for drawing a picture?
(a) They would go see the monster movie.
(b) He would bring him dessert.
(c) He would buy him art supplies.
(d) He would take him to the zoo.

10. Why does Ichiro refuse to help Noriko put away the breakfast things?
(a) He's playing a game.
(b) He says it's women's work.
(c) He wants to stay with his grandfather.
(d) He wants to stay with his mother.

11. What is a miai?
(a) A formal meeting between the families of a prospective bride and groom.
(b) A business meeting.
(c) A wedding reception.
(d) An engagement party.

12. What does Miyake think about the suicide of his company's president?
(a) It brought shame to his employees.
(b) It was a tragic waste.
(c) It was an embarrassment to the company.
(d) It was a noble gesture that freed his employees from shame.

13. How does Noriko persuade Ichiro to help her clear away the breakfast things?
(a) By threatening to send him to his room.
(b) By telling him she's not strong enough to put the table away.
(c) By telling him she will give him a treat.
(d) By threatening him with a time out.

14. How does Ono convince his wife that an investigation for the sale of the house is not a problem?
(a) Such investigations would be done for their daughters' marriage negotiations.
(b) The investigation wouldn't take long.
(c) The others had worse records than the Onos.
(d) Records of any wrongdoing had been destroyed.

15. Who does Ono think Ichiro is pretending to be when the boy imagines himself on horseback?
(a) Lord Yoshitsune.
(b) Roy Rogers.
(c) The Lone Ranger.
(d) Gene Autry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Setsuko's husband, Suichi, persist in asking?

2. Who is Ichiro actually pretending to be when he imagines himself on horseback?

3. What wrongdoing does Ono confess at the miai?

4. What does Ono believe would make Shintaro happier?

5. What part of the house do Ono's daughters enjoy most?

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