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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young naval officer give Yasukichi to help him write the eulogy?

2. Who was the next of the narrator's family to die?

3. What was the name of the founder of Rome?

4. What does the critic call Yasukichi's writings?

5. Whose obituary is printed at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author's sister tell him about the death of her husband?

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

3. Why does the narrator say he feels guilty?

4. How does Akutagawa's wife increase his panic?

5. What happens to the baby?

6. What are Shinsuke's views on beauty?

7. What does Akutagawa hear on the phone?

8. What amuses Yasukichi at the end of the story?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What information is in Henry Barrett's obituary? Why does the author include Henry Barrett's obituary at the end of Horse Legs?

Essay Topic 2

Compare American and Japanese culture.

1. What are the differences between the two cultures?

2. In what way have the two cultures influenced each other?

Essay Topic 3

What In the Bamboo Grove say about unreliable narration? How can the court get to the truth?

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