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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. What does Yuki offer to do when she speaks to Shizuko on the phone in Chapter 1?
(a) Pay her piano teacher.
(b) Come home immediately and fix supper.
(c) Apologize for starting a fight at baseball practice.
(d) Collect cherry blossoms for a wreath.

2. What is Yuki's first response when she discovers her mother unconscious?
(a) Yuki cries and collapses onto the floor.
(b) Yuki runs to the neighbor's house to get help.
(c) Yuki walks to the living room and plays her mother's favorite song on the piano.
(d) Yuki drops her books, turns off the gas, and calls her father at work.

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

4. Why does her Aunt Aya ask Yuki to change her clothes before the wake?
(a) Aya thinks that Shizuko would not have approved of Yuki's dress.
(b) Aya thinks that Yuki's dress is not dark enough.
(c) Aya thinks that Yuki's dress is too short.
(d) Aya thinks that Yuki's dress is too tight.

5. Where does Yuki live the first year after Shizuko's death?
(a) In the United States, with her father Hideki and stepmother.
(b) In Kobe, with her grandmother.
(c) In Kobe, with her mother.
(d) In Tokyo, with her Aunt Aya.

Short Answer Questions

1. What special object does Yuki carry with her to the wedding?

2. What does Yuki recall doing in the living room with Shizuko?

3. Why do Yuki and Aunt Aya go to Kobe at the beginning of Chapter 3?

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

5. What details are revealed about Shizuko's husband in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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