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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Ten through Nineteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Rodrigues found the morning after the storm?
(a) dead and mangled at the bottom of a cliff.
(b) alive and well at the bottom of a cliff.
(c) floating face down in the surf at the bottom of a cliff.
(d) barely alive at the bottom of a cliff.

2. What is Blackthorne's position before the wreck of the Erasmus?
(a) navigator of the Omi.
(b) translator for the British.
(c) captain of the Santa Theresa.
(d) pilot-major of the trading ship Erasmus.

3. Why does Toranaga deny the young widow the privilege of committing seppuku?
(a) because she is the sister of the shōgun.
(b) because it is not allowed of women.
(c) because he wants her to be publicly punished.
(d) because she is young and will have more children.

4. Who is the pilot of the galley that will take Blackthorne to Osaka?
(a) an Englishman named Hyde-White.
(b) a Frenchman named LaSalle.
(c) a Chinese named Li Wang.
(d) a Portuguese named Vasco Rodrigues.

5. What does the samurai Omi do when one man fails to bow upon his arrival?
(a) he throws the man into prison.
(b) he has the man crucified.
(c) he orders the man put to the lash.
(d) he slices off the man's head.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the galley get safely into the harbor?

2. What does Domingo teach Blackthorne?

3. How does Blackthorne realize he is not going to be executed?

4. What does Blackthorne suspect about Father Sabastio?

5. On the way to Osaka, what does Blackthorne do while Rodrigues naps?

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