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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Baynes make clear to Tagomi in Chapter 5 about Mr. Yatabe's visit?
(a) It must be brief.
(b) It must be recorded.
(c) It must be uncompensated.
(d) It must be secret.

2. What makes Juliana certain she and Joe could never be part of the colonization on other planets?
(a) Their physical features.
(b) Their illicit relationship.
(c) Their political views.
(d) Their personal fears.

3. Who does Rita note her parents said would have won WW II if he had lived?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Hitler.

4. What does Frank decide to do as a result of the Oracle's message?
(a) Beg to get his job back.
(b) Live life as best he can.
(c) Send a message to Juliana.
(d) Seek Childan's business advice.

5. What does Baynes say they must wait for before he and Tagomi can meet?
(a) The arrival of an economic expert.
(b) An elderly man from the Homeland to arrive.
(c) Word that the Japanese will pay him.
(d) Assurance of military protection.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wyndam-Matson's feel about "historicity"?

2. What irony exists in Ray Calvin's angry call to William-Matson about Childan's complaint?

3. What does the author use to establish the relationship between Frank and McCarthy, his foreman?

4. What image set forth in The Grasshopper Lies Heavy seems to upset Joe the most?

5. What has caused Africa to become a wasteland?

(see the answer key)

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