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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 is the man sitting next to him on the train is wearing?
(a) A suit.
(b) Shorts and a t-shirt.
(c) A pair of jeans.
(d) A rain coat.

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

3. What does the narrator's father try to bribe the narrator with?
(a) Women.
(b) Money.
(c) Sweets.
(d) Ice cream.

4. What does the critic call Yasukichi's writings?
(a) Over-wroght.
(b) Spare-time jottings.
(c) Dull and techically awful.
(d) Ramblings of a genuis.

5. How is the narrator informed of his mother's death?
(a) By a messenger boy.
(b) By his father.
(c) By letter.
(d) By telegram.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hatsuku mean?

2. Who does Yasukichi hear crying?

3. What is Fujita's rank in the army?

4. What does Yasukichi fill the eulogy with?

5. Where does Hanzaburo wake up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Akutagawa hear on the phone?

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

3. Why does the narrator say he feels guilty?

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

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

6. What does the Life of the Stupid Man say about Akutagawa's state of mind?

7. How does the author end the story?

8. What happens to the baby?

9. What are Shinsuke's views on beauty?

10. Why does Shinsuke come to appreciate the fact his mother did not breast feed him?

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