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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sasaki's rank?
(a) Major.
(b) General.
(c) Colonel.
(d) Admiral.

2. What is Yasukichi's job?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A dentist.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A teacher.

3. What does Hatsuku mean?
(a) Free as a bird.
(b) Goodness.
(c) Special one.
(d) First daughter.

4. What has the narrator been hired to write?
(a) A haiku.
(b) An article.
(c) A short story.
(d) A novel.

5. Why do the Chinese men panic?
(a) They given Hanzaburo the wrong legs.
(b) They have lost their documents.
(c) They have forgotten to meet Buddha.
(d) They have killed the wrong man.

6. What does Hanzaburo die of?
(a) A stroke.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Typhoid fever.
(d) A seizure.

7. What kind of milk was Shinsuke raised on?
(a) Wolf's milk.
(b) Cat's milk.
(c) Goat's milk.
(d) Cow's milk.

8. What does the author say he wants someone to do to him?
(a) Shoot him.
(b) Strangle the life from him.
(c) Hold him.
(d) Tell him nice things.

9. What does the initially doctor say is wrong with the narrator's baby?
(a) It has the flu.
(b) It has an upset stomach.
(c) It a bad tooth.
(d) It has consumption.

10. What does the storyteller say frightens horses across the region?
(a) Green Smoke.
(b) Yellow Dust.
(c) White Smoke.
(d) Orange Dust.

11. What does Yasukichi translate?
(a) English texts.
(b) Russian texts.
(c) Spanish texts.
(d) German texts.

12. How did Akutagawa's brother-in-law kill himself?
(a) He jumped off a bridge.
(b) He slit his throat.
(c) He hung himself.
(d) He threw himself in front of a train.

13. What did Honda die from?
(a) A war wound.
(b) A stroke.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Typhoid fever.

14. Where does the narrator go at the end of the story?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) The cemetary.
(c) A gentleman's club.
(d) The hospital.

15. What does Shinsuke call the diary he wants to write?
(a) The Diary of the Forgotten.
(b) Poverty Pourings.
(c) Diary of Hope.
(d) Diary without Self-Deceit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the two Chinese Hanzaburo if he is?

2. What happens to Tseneko before she can see her husband's horse legs?

3. What does Akutagawa call the girl he has an affair with?

4. What does the author hear a man mention that something is?

5. What is the narrator's job?

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