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

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

3. Where does Hanzaburo wake up?
(a) On top of a mountain.
(b) In his bed.
(c) At work.
(d) At his funeral.

4. What word does the author hear over the phone?
(a) Vole.
(b) Mole.
(c) Spot.
(d) Mud.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what mood does the author's wife arrive home in?

2. What does Yasukichi enjoy writing?

3. What kind of dresses did Hatsuku wear?

4. What is the man sitting next to him on the train is wearing?

5. Who visits Tsuneko at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Honda's relative's react to the eulogy?

2. What does the doctor say is wrong with the baby?

3. Describe the image at the river Shinsuke says affects him deeply.

4. How does Tsuneko react to seeing her husband's horse legs?

5. How does the author end the story?

6. Why does the narrator say he feels guilty?

7. Why is it so difficult for Oshino to hide his legs?

8. What does the narrator remember about his eldest sister?

9. What does the narrator say he remembers about his mother?

10. Why does the storyteller think Oshino is so ordinary?

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