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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Sixty and Sixty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before the storm, who comes on deck to see Blackthorne piloting the ship while Rodrigues sleeps?
(a) Hiro-matsu and Yabu.
(b) Toranaga and Yabu.
(c) Hiro-matsu and Father Sebastio.
(d) a priest and Yabu.

2. What does Mariko do when she sees the results of the ninja explosion?
(a) runs to save Kiku.
(b) puches Blackthorne out a back door.
(c) throws herself into it to avoid being taken alive.
(d) throws her kimono on the flames.

3. What are the living conditions of Blackthorne's crew?
(a) they have all been given Japanese wives.
(b) they are in a large house with servants.
(c) they are free to make improvements on their houses.
(d) they are in filth and crawling with lice.

4. What agreement do Buntaro and Mariko come to?
(a) to go their separate ways but stay married.
(b) to put on a public display as husband and wife.
(c) to get a divorce.
(d) to try anew as husband and wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts the party?

2. What does Blackthorne find at Yokohama?

3. What does Blackthorne want to do?

4. When they next meet, what does Blackthorne tell Mariko he understood at the party?

5. What praise does Rodrigues give the Japanese sailors?

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