1. According to Shizuko, what is the best kind of pottery?
(a) The kind covered in flowers.
(b) The kind that you get in China.
(c) The kind sold at department stores.
(d) The kind that you could use every day.

2. To whom does Shizuko write notes in Chapter 1?
(a) Hideki and her mother.
(b) Miss Uozumi and her mother.
(c) Hideki and Yuki.
(d) The village carpenter and Yuki.

3. Why do Yuki and Aunt Aya go to Kobe at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) They are there for Yuki's piano recital. It is Yuki's first recital since her mother's death.
(b) They are there to attend the wedding of Hideki and his new bride. After the wedding, Yuki will move in with her father and new stepmother.
(c) They are there to attend Yuki's grandmother's funeral.
(d) They are there to visit Shizuko's grave. It is the first anniversary of her death.

4. What do Yuki and her Aunt Aya do together just before the wake?
(a) Take the train from Tokyo to Kobe.
(b) Clean the living room and drape the furniture in white sheets.
(c) Wash their hair in the kitchen sink.
(d) Pack Shizuko's clothes and other belongings.

5. Why is Shizuko standing on her tiptoes in the wedding photo that Yuki carries with her?
(a) Her dress was too long and she did not want the hem to show.
(b) Her dress had beadwork on the waist and the photographer asked her to stand taller so he could capture it.
(c) She is so short that Hideki looked like a giant next to her unless she stood on her tiptoes.
(d) She thought she would look thinner if she stood on her tiptoes.