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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much whiskey does Ichiro's father drink just before Ichiro returns from Portland?
(a) He doesn't drink whiskey.
(b) Enough to make him pass out.
(c) He had two glasses.
(d) Enough to throw up.

2. Why does Kenji tell Ichiro to take the car back to Seattle by himself?
(a) Because Kenji wants Ichiro to find a job in Seattle.
(b) Because Kenji wants his father to come pick him up.
(c) Because Kenji knows he is dying.
(d) Because Kenji doesn't want to drive it anymore.

3. What happens when Tommy and Ichiro go to church together?
(a) They learned that Japanese are not welcome.
(b) They get into a fist fight.
(c) They learn about religion.
(d) They decide not to be religious.

4. How does the Japanese boy's mother greet Ichiro when serving his ham and eggs?
(a) With a rude tone.
(b) She says nothing.
(c) In Chinese.
(d) In Japanese.

5. Where did Ichiro's mother fail most?
(a) Trying to keep him isolated from Americans and their customs.
(b) Trying to make him enlist in the army.
(c) Trying to make him learn several languages.
(d) Trying to make him take over the family business.

6. Who gets a drink for Bull as he sits slumped up against a trash can to recover?
(a) Ito.
(b) Freddie.
(c) Ichiro.
(d) A stranger.

7. Why does Kenji want to write Ralph a letter?
(a) To ask him if he wants to buy the Oldsmobile.
(b) To tell Ralph that the U.S. has won the war.
(c) To tell him that Ichiro and Emi get along well.
(d) To tell him that he is dying.

8. What happens when Ichiro's fist connects with someone's face, right between the eyes, as he is fighting in the alley?
(a) Bull's face starts gushing blood.
(b) Freddie's face starts gushing blood.
(c) Nothing, Ichiro doesn't know how to fight.
(d) Taro's face starts gushing blood.

9. Who does Freddie fight with before they arrive at the Club Oriental?
(a) Ichiro's father.
(b) No one, they arrive at Club Oriental without incident.
(c) A black man shining shoes and a Japanese man who runs the pool parlor.
(d) Two women walking down the street.

10. What will Ichiro do for the Christian Rehabilitation Center?
(a) Work with the sign painter.
(b) Work with the priest.
(c) Fix furniture.
(d) Teach children how to read.

11. What was Ichiro's flashback about?
(a) He remembers a professor teaching him about engineering.
(b) He remembers his father trying to teach him how to run the grocery store just before he went off to prison.
(c) He remembers a man who didn't like being discriminated against, but wouldn't stand up for a Black man getting the same treatment.
(d) He remembers his mother trying to teach him American customs when he was just a small boy.

12. Why is Ichiro upset with the people who show up at his mother's funeral?
(a) He feels too sad to notice any other people.
(b) He feels they are phony and didn't even know his mother.
(c) He thinks the people are too loud.
(d) He thinks they are eating too much food.

13. Who is Ichiro going to work with at the Christian Rehabilitation Center?
(a) Gary.
(b) Emi.
(c) Taro.
(d) Freddie.

14. Who jumps in to save Freddie in the fight in front of Club Oriental near the end of the book?
(a) Taro.
(b) Bull.
(c) Ichiro.
(d) No one helps Freddie.

15. Who does Ichiro give Kenji's car to?
(a) Ralph.
(b) Emi.
(c) Taro.
(d) Kenji's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What presents does Kenji give to his father?

2. Who stabbed Ito?

3. What do the funeral and Ichiro's mother's life have in common?

4. Who is Tommy?

5. What old friend does Ichiro see again at his mother's funeral?

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