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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. Musui says young men should trust ______________.
(a) Their partners.
(b) Their masters.
(c) Their emotions.
(d) Their parents.

2. What does Musui like to do with Genebei?
(a) All of these.
(b) Make jokes.
(c) Learn sword skills.
(d) Pick fights.

3. What is Harakiri?
(a) A warrior's blade.
(b) A form of suicide.
(c) A kind of flower.
(d) A lethal sedative.

4. How does Musui fall down a cliff?
(a) He is pushed.
(b) He falls asleep and slips in the night.
(c) He slips in some mud.
(d) His rope breaks.

5. How old is Musui when Hikoshiro hires him?
(a) 18.
(b) 16.
(c) 19.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Musui at when he is robbed?

2. Musui says that he once spent a day swimming in_______________.

3. What does Musui find that allows him to cook grain?

4. What does Musui say people should study at school?

5. Who nurses Musui back to health after he runs away?

Short Essay Questions

1. What job is Musui given at age seventeen?

2. Whom does Musui greatly praise at the beginning of the book? Why?

3. What happens when Musui encounters some Samurai after he runs away?

4. Why does Musui not try to read and write when he is young?

5. Why is Musui so fond of picking duels when he is seventeen?

6. What advice does Musui give to little girls and boys?

7. How does Musui lose all his belongings after running away?

8. What does Musui refuse to do when he comes home after running away, and what does this do to him?

9. What happens to Musui at age twelve?

10. What does Musui do after being beaten by twenty boys at a young age?

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