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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 the Englishman killed?
(a) in boiling oil.
(b) in the boiling sun.
(c) in boiling water.
(d) in boiling butter.

2. What has Yabu decided to do against direct orders.
(a) remain in Yedo.
(b) not to kill any of the Englishmen.
(c) go directly to the shōgun.
(d) sink the Erasmus.

3. How does the galley get safely into the harbor?
(a) a freak wind saves it.
(b) Blackthorne pilots it.
(c) another galley comes to haul it.
(d) the storm ceases.

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

5. When Toda Hiro-matsu arrives, what is Yabu doing?
(a) unloading the Erasmus.
(b) entertaining Blackthorne.
(c) recruiting an army.
(d) preparing for an execution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the men given to eat?

2. Why does Hiro-matsu request permission to commit seppuku?

3. What does Domingo say about the prisoners in the place where he and Blackthorne are?

4. How does Rodrigues begin to feel about Blackthorne?

5. What causes Toranaga to have trouble sleeping?

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