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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 – Tiptoes (April 1970).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following events takes place at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) She confronts her husband about his infidelity.
(b) She takes Yuki to the doctor to have her knee stitched.
(c) She completes her cleaning projects.
(d) Shizuko takes her own life by turning the gas oven on and inhaling the fumes.

2. In what year does Yuki's father get remarried?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1969.

3. What causes Shizuko to wake up from her nap in Chapter 1?
(a) Cherry blossom petals fall on her.
(b) The telephone rings.
(c) She smells gas.
(d) She hears crashing thunder.

4. What does Yuki do after changing her clothes on the day of the wake?
(a) She lights a candle and sits at the altar to pray.
(b) She goes to Miss Uozumi's house.
(c) She collects cherry blossoms to place on her mother's coffin.
(d) She sits on the floor of her closet and cries.

5. Where is Yuki in Chapter 1?
(a) Miss Uozumi's house.
(b) A village celebration.
(c) A friend's house.
(d) School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Yuki live the first year after Shizuko's death?

2. What does Shizuko's mother say the morning of the wake?

3. Why does her Aunt Aya ask Yuki to change her clothes before the wake?

4. Which sentence best characterizes Yuki's behavior on the day of the wake?

5. How does Yuki feel about her father's new bride?

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