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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. This is the best way to describe the book's ending:
(a) Violent.
(b) Sad.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Confusing.
2. 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 who are willing to help him overcome his past.
(c) There are people willing to teach him religion.
(d) There are people willing to help his father.
3. Why does Kenji tell Ichiro to take the car back to Seattle by himself?
(a) Because Kenji wants his father to come pick him up.
(b) Because Kenji knows he is dying.
(c) Because Kenji wants Ichiro to find a job in Seattle.
(d) Because Kenji doesn't want to drive it anymore.
4. Who does Freddie fight with before they arrive at the Club Oriental?
(a) A black man shining shoes and a Japanese man who runs the pool parlor.
(b) Two women walking down the street.
(c) Ichiro's father.
(d) No one, they arrive at Club Oriental without incident.
5. What man is balding with unsympathetic, dark eyes?
(a) Ralph.
(b) The priest.
(c) The college professor.
(d) Ichiro's father.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Ichiro's flashback about?
2. How much whiskey does Ichiro's father drink just before Ichiro returns from Portland?
3. Who gets a drink for Bull as he sits slumped up against a trash can to recover?
4. Why is Tommy unhappy when he and Ichiro go to church?
5. What is wrong with the voice of the priest who is conducting the ceremony at Ichiro's mother's funeral?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kenji's family do together that night?
2. What does the violent ending provide Ichiro?
3. Why does Kenji tell Ichiro to go back to Seattle without him?
4. What does Ichiro finally start to understand about his past after taking the job at the Christian Rehabilitation Center?
5. What does Ichiro's behavior to the Japanese waiter at the Burnside Cafe symbolize?
6. What does finding a job represent to Ichiro?
7. Why does Ichiro go to the Christian Rehabilitation Center?
8. How does Ichiro cause Bull's face to gush with blood?
9. What is Ichiro's father so impressed with at Ichiro's mother's funeral?
10. Why is Ichiro's father drinking so heavily?
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