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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 – Gladioli (March 1975).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the large earthenware bowl during the wedding ceremony of Hideki and his new bride?
(a) Aunt Aya throws it out the window and it lands in the harbor.
(b) Hideki drops it and it breaks.
(c) Yuki drops it and it breaks.
(d) Yuki hides it in her closet after the ceremony.

2. What does Yuki tell Hideki and Hanae before leaving for Nagasaki?
(a) She will be writing every month to Hideki.
(b) She does not think she will ever come back.
(c) She is going to become a famous artist.
(d) She feels nothing but disdain for them.

3. Where does Yuki decide to go to college?
(a) A small art school in Nagasaki.
(b) A national university in Kobe.
(c) A large art school in Tokyo.
(d) Yuki is not going to college this year.

4. What does Yuki do with Mr. Kimura's business card?
(a) She uses it to call Mr. Kimura.
(b) She puts the card in her little white purse.
(c) She throws the card in the trash bin.
(d) She puts the card in her drawer of handkerchiefs and forgets it.

5. Why does Hideki think they should lie about the way her mother died?
(a) If they admitted the truth, nobody would want to come to their home.
(b) If they admitted the truth, people would say that she came from a mentally unstable family.
(c) If they admitted the truth, people would think Hideki's infidelity had caused Shizuko to kill herself.
(d) If they admitted the truth, people would feel pity for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hideki no longer fear what death will be like?

2. What does Hanae's doctor mean when he tells her it is too late?

3. In what month does Chapter 6, Sundays, begin?

4. Which items does Hanae remove from Yuki's room in Chapter 8?

5. What kind of clothes did Shizuko make for Yuki before she died?

(see the answer key)

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