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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Forty through Forty-Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is Blackthorne looking for when he manages to return to his ship?
(a) the rubber.
(b) the ribber.
(c) the rutter.
(d) the rudder.

3. How does Buntaro escape death?
(a) Rodrigues's galley comes close enough for him to swim.
(b) Toranaga sends him a horse and orders him to safety.
(c) the soldiers begin to slip and fall off the jetty.
(d) Toranaga's men ambush the soldiers.

4. What lie does Blackthorne continue to tell?
(a) that he comes from Argentina.
(b) that the Erasmus is a British ship.
(c) that he is only a deckhand.
(d) that his fleet is coming.

5. Why does Ishido Kazunari insult Toranaga?
(a) to see how he will react.
(b) to have an excuse for killing him.
(c) to precipitate a change in government.
(d) to challenge his samurai.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Fujiko sleep?

2. What does Toranaga tell Gyoko about Kiku?

3. Why does Rodrigues go aboard the Erasmus?

4. What does Blackthorne want to do?

5. Who has possession of the Erasmus?

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