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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much longer does Yuki have until she leaves for Nagasaki?
(a) A week.
(b) Six hours.
(c) Two days.
(d) One day.

2. What does Yuki tell Hideki and Hanae before leaving for Nagasaki?
(a) She does not think she will ever come back.
(b) She feels nothing but disdain for them.
(c) She is going to become a famous artist.
(d) She will be writing every month to Hideki.

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

4. In the beginning of Chapter 12, why does Yuki wait until midnight to sneak into the attic?
(a) The attic door is always locked and she must steal the key.
(b) The attic is too hot during the day to enter.
(c) She is ashamed of her actions.
(d) She wants to wait until her father and stepmother are asleep.

5. What does the smell of formaldehyde remind Yuki of in Chapter 9?
(a) Chemistry class.
(b) Cleaning products.
(c) The dark room where Yuki creates photographs.
(d) Shizuko's cremation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Shizuko help the golden carp as a schoolgirl?

2. What emotions does Hideki feel after Yuki leaves for Nagasaki?

3. In Chapter 15, what does Isamu tell Yuki as they sit in the garden?

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

5. What lesson does Yuki fail to learn from her grandfather?

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