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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yuki threaten Mr. Sato with in Chapter 15?
(a) A fork.
(b) A restraining order.
(c) A book.
(d) A rock.

2. In Chapter 14, what does Masa believe about becoming an artist?
(a) The only good type of art is painting.
(b) Artists must work hard to find inspiration.
(c) The great artists do not need college, and neither does Yuki.
(d) Artists are lazy people who do not have real work.

3. In Chapter 11, how has Yuki's grandfather changed since she last saw him?
(a) He is slower to speak and move.
(b) He is in a wheelchair.
(c) He does not speak to anyone.
(d) He smiles more often.

4. According to Hanae in Chapter 13, what do the neighbors believe about Yuki's departure?
(a) Yuki is a headstrong girl that had no discipline.
(b) Hideki does not miss Yuki now that she is gone.
(c) Hanae is a bad stepmother that drove Yuki away.
(d) Yuki has been sent away to live with her aunt again.

5. Why does Yuki refuse to eat oyster soup for dinner when she is ten?
(a) Yuki becomes ill if she eats seafood.
(b) Yuki believes the oysters were cooked alive.
(c) The oysters will be sandy from the beach.
(d) There is a strange smell coming from the soup.

6. In Chapter 15, what does Isamu tell Yuki as they sit in the garden?
(a) There is nothing ugly about this world.
(b) Things will work out.
(c) Masa is strong enough to move on from Takeo's death.
(d) Yuki's photographs are beautiful.

7. What does Yuki do with the kimonos that Masa allows her to take?
(a) Burns them as a tribute to Takeo and Shizuko.
(b) Cuts and sews them into a quilted vest.
(c) Wears them around the boardinghouse.
(d) Gives them to Isamu's younger sister.

8. Why does Tadashi initially refuse to play on the slide?
(a) The slide has rotted through on the bottom.
(b) He is too big and the wood will give him splinters.
(c) Etsuko never lets him use wooden playground equipment.
(d) There is a puddle of water at the base of the slide.

9. Who gives Yuki the letter from her Aunt Aya in the beginning of Chapter 10?
(a) Takeo.
(b) Hideki.
(c) Masa.
(d) Hanae.

10. During an argument over dinner, what does Hanae accuse Yuki of being?
(a) Shady and malicious.
(b) Wasteful and foolish.
(c) Close and sly.
(d) Demanding and haughty.

11. How does Takeo feel about the land reform?
(a) He is unhappy with the harsh treatment of landowners.
(b) He gloats about how little has changed, despite the reform.
(c) He is bitter that he has lost so much land due to reform.
(d) He understands that reform needed to happen to save the country.

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

13. How do some of Yuki's friends in homemaking class fix their poor sewing?
(a) Yuki's friends practice very hard after class.
(b) The teacher holds a special class for Yuki and her friends.
(c) Yuki's friends convince their mothers to help them.
(d) Yuki is convinced to help her friends straighten their stitches.

14. 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?
(a) Yuki's.
(b) Shizuko's.
(c) Hanae's.
(d) Aya's.

15. As Yuki lies down to bed, what is she trying to imagine?
(a) The boxes that are in the attic.
(b) The paintings that she will create in college.
(c) The countryside she will see outside of the train window as she travels.
(d) How proud Shizuko would be to see her daughter's success.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what reason does Yuki give for not wanting to fall in love?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 11, who is Saburo's wife?

3. What does Yuki do with the jar of dead frogs?

4. At the end of Chapter 16, what does Masa do at the open window?

5. What is Yuki's pervading thought when she first learns that Takeo is dead?

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