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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who stabbed Ito?
(a) Bull.
(b) Freddie.
(c) Ichiro's father.
(d) Taro.

4. Why does Ichiro go to the Christian Rehabiliation Center?
(a) To apply for a job.
(b) To learn English.
(c) To learn Japanese.
(d) To learn about religion.

5. Why is Ichiro's father drinking so much the day Ichiro returns from Portland?
(a) He wants to have fun.
(b) He is deeply depressed.
(c) He is trying to go to sleep.
(d) He is an alcoholic.

6. Where does Kenji's father live?
(a) In a house he owns.
(b) In an apartment in the middle of town.
(c) In a cottage by a river.
(d) In a rented house on top of a hill.

7. Why does Mr. Carrick offer Ichiro a job?
(a) He is apathetic to Japanese-Americans.
(b) He is familiar with the struggles of Japanese-Americans and is sympathetic to Ichiro's time in jail.
(c) He is desperate for a new employee.
(d) He doesn't want to hire anymore Americans.

8. Kenji drinks quickly while his father:
(a) Drinks very slowly, appreciating the drink.
(b) Drinks only when no one is looking.
(c) Doesn't drink at all.
(d) Drinks very quickly as well.

9. What does Ichiro tell Mr. Morrison, the man in charge of the Christian Rehabilitation Center?
(a) That he loves to paint.
(b) That he decided to go to jail rather than serve in the army.
(c) That he is mourning the loss of his mother.
(d) That he is against all forms of religion.

10. What do the funeral and Ichiro's mother's life have in common?
(a) They were both too short.
(b) They were both full of things that did not reflect reality.
(c) They were both happy celebrations.
(d) They were both full of flowers.

11. What do we learn about Ichiro's mother before Ichiro leaves for Portland?
(a) She has a deteriorating mental condition.
(b) That she doesn't like Ichiro.
(c) That she wants to sell the grocery store.
(d) That she enjoys lining up cans and knocking them over.

12. How does Ichiro's mother die?
(a) She hangs herself.
(b) She dies of natural causes.
(c) She shoots herself.
(d) She drowns herself in the bathtub.

13. Who does Freddie kick during the fight in the alley before running to his car?
(a) A stranger.
(b) Ichiro.
(c) Bull.
(d) Ito.

14. What is Ichiro finally starting to learn about people as he gets a new job?
(a) There are people willing to teach him American customs.
(b) There are people willing to help his father.
(c) There are people willing to teach him religion.
(d) There are people who are willing to help him overcome his past.

15. What do we learn from Kenji about Emi and her feelings about Ralph?
(a) She wants to stay married to Ralph.
(b) She is less devoted to Ralph than initially thought.
(c) She is in love with Kenji.
(d) She wants to meet Taro.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is Ichiro going to start his new job in Portland?

2. What happens to Freddie as he and Ichiro enter Club Oriental together near the end of the book?

3. What does Ichiro tell the Japanese boy waiting on him at the cafe?

4. What does Ichiro learn from Kenji's father?

5. What was Ichiro's flashback about?

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