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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 – Winter Sky (February 1975).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Kimura bring Yuki when he joins her outside in Chapter 11?
(a) A cup of tea.
(b) A pair of mittens.
(c) Yuki's sea-green jacket.
(d) A book that Shizuko liked.

2. According to Yuki in Chapter 12, what will Hanae do with the things Yuki leaves behind?
(a) Throw them away.
(b) Keep them clean, as if Yuki is not gone.
(c) Pack them in boxes to store in the attic.
(d) Sell them to a pawn shop.

3. What are the first items from Shizuko's storage boxes that Hideki burns in Chapter 13?
(a) Folders filled with papers and photographs.
(b) Sketches of the mountains.
(c) Watercolor paintings from Yuki's childhood.
(d) Kimonos and handkerchiefs.

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

5. As Hideki studies the sketch of Yuki holding a bouquet of daisies, what thought strikes him?
(a) Yuki looks very much like Shizuko, her mother.
(b) He cannot remember the last time Yuki smiled.
(c) Yuki has grown up into a strong woman.
(d) He has never seen these sketches.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the wake take place?

2. What does Mr. Kimura teach when he meets Yuki in Chapter 10?

3. Why does Aya want Yuki to come to her wedding?

4. In Chapter 13, when Hideki notes that there is much to be said for great love and loyalty, whose love and loyalty does he refer to?

5. According to Shizuko, why didn't Hideki cry at his mother's funeral?

(see the answer key)

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