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

2. In Chapter 1, why is Yuki going to be late for dinner?
(a) She is going to a friend's house to collect flowers.
(b) She is waiting for her piano teacher, who is running late.
(c) She is tutoring students at school.
(d) She got into a fight at baseball practice and injured her knee.

3. Who arrives just as Yuki goes upstairs to change her clothes on the day of the wake?
(a) The priest.
(b) Hideki.
(c) Miss Uozumi.
(d) Shizuko's sister.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the wake take place?

2. In what year does Yuki's father get remarried?

3. What does Yuki do after changing her clothes on the day of the wake?

4. To whom does Shizuko write notes in Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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