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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Yuki's school grade level in Chapter 5?
(a) Eighth.
(b) Sixth
(c) Ninth.
(d) First.

2. How does it make Hanae feel when she receives compliments from others about Yuki?
(a) She does not believe that they are being honest.
(b) She is sick of not being able to contradict them.
(c) She is relieved that they are not complaining about the girl.
(d) She is as happy as if Yuki were her own child.

3. What does Sachiko invite Yuki to do at the track meet?
(a) Meet in a park and run together.
(b) Plant azaleas.
(c) Go shopping at the mall.
(d) Go watch a movie.

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

5. Select the character below who says, "How can I respect someone who was cowardly enough to kill herself?"
(a) Hideki.
(b) Yuki.
(c) Hanae.
(d) Masa.

6. What does Shizuko say about her clothes as she packs them to prepare for a move?
(a) Some clothes are too drab for her now.
(b) Some clothes are too trendy for her now.
(c) Some clothes are too bright for her now.
(d) Some clothes are too tight for her now.

7. For what does Hanae blame Hideki?
(a) He never taught her to drive properly.
(b) He allowed her to become a barren woman.
(c) He kept a messy home.
(d) He forced her to keep that old teapot.

8. Select the character below who says, "I'm very competitive. I can't stand losing."
(a) Shizuko.
(b) Hideki.
(c) Sachiko.
(d) Yuki.

9. What does Hideki's bride wear to the wedding ceremony?
(a) A traditional kimono.
(b) A gray jumper.
(c) A black evening gown.
(d) A Western-style dress.

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

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

12. Who rearranged furniture to prepare for the wake?
(a) The men.
(b) Yuki and her father.
(c) Yuki's grandmother and aunt.
(d) Yuki and her aunt.

13. Select the character below who says, "I won't hear about you cutting your hair."
(a) Mrs. Murai.
(b) Hideki.
(c) Shizuko.
(d) Aya.

14. 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 cries and collapses onto the floor.
(d) Yuki runs to the neighbor's house to get help.

15. What is the only thing in the kitchen that has not been changed by Yuki's stepmother after she moves into the house?
(a) The wood floor.
(b) The porcelain plates and saucers with tiny pink flowers on the rim.
(c) The persimmon-colored tea set inside the glass cabinet.
(d) The curtains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yuki think would have happened if she had told the truth about her mother's death to Sachiko and Mrs. Murai?

2. Which character is introduced in Chapter 5?

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

4. What kind of clothes did Shizuko make for Yuki before she died?

5. No matter how much she looks, what can Hanae never find in Yuki's room?

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