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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Portuguese named Vasco Rodrigues.
(d) a Chinese named Li Wang.

2. What order does Toda Hiro-matsu issue?
(a) that Yabu return with Blackthorne to Osaka
(b) that Blackthorne be sent to Osaka alone.
(c) that Yabu be executed.
(d) that Yabu keeps Blackthorne in his house.

3. What is the position of Toda Hiro-matsu?
(a) he is the shōgun's general.
(b) he is the provencial governor.
(c) he is Toranga's rival.
(d) he is Toranga's adviser.

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

5. Why does Omi, nephew of Yabu, advise that the men from the shipwreck not be killed?
(a) because they might know something important.
(b) because they would amuse the shōgun.
(c) because of their apparent dislike of the priest.
(d) because it is not an auspicious day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blackthorne suspect about the daimyo, Kasigi Yabu, Lord of Izu?

2. Why does Blackthorne bow to Yabu?

3. Why does Rodrigues go aboard the Erasmus?

4. What does Yabu find on the Erasmus?

5. Who knows the true story of the death of Obata Hiro and Toranaga's grandfather?

(see the answer key)

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