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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. Who is Yoshihide over-protective of?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) His sister.
(d) His daughter.

2. What is Yoshihide caught stealing from the Lord?
(a) A deer.
(b) A tangerine.
(c) A sheep.
(d) An apple.

3. What does the sign say will ascend from the pond?
(a) A dragon.
(b) A giant.
(c) A serpent.
(d) A whale.

4. Who gives Zenchi the nose-shortening treatment?
(a) A disciple.
(b) A warrior.
(c) A priest.
(d) A doctor.

5. What are Christians sentenced to in O-Gin?
(a) A work camp.
(b) Hot coals.
(c) Burn at the stake.
(d) Buried alive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is watching the scene from Paradise?

2. What are O-Kimi and Tanaka going to watch in the neighboring town?

3. What is the name of the painter who created the Hell Screen?

4. Why do people think Yoshihide can paint the fires of hell so well?

5. What does Kanazawa use to kill himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Yoshihide show his over-protective attitude towards his daughter in this story?

2. What emotion does Xiao-er feel as he rides away dying?

3. How does the author describe Tanaka?

4. How are Shuri, Usaemon and other members of the Itakura family punished?

5. What is the diagnosis the doctor gives Shino's daughter?

6. Why do the green onions affect O-Kimi so much?

7. How does the Lord kill Yoshihide's daughter?

8. Describe the character of O-Kimi.

9. How do people react to the word about the dragon?

10. How did Xiao-er get his head chopped off?

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