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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Suwa know plans to kill Yabu one day?
(a) Su, the uncle of Yabu's enemy, Ikawa Jikkyu.
(b) Toranaga.
(c) Yuriko.
(d) Father Sabastio.

2. Who arrives and almost puts an end to the ruse Toranaga uses for his getaway?
(a) Yaemon.
(b) Mariko.
(c) Father Sebastio.
(d) Ishido.

3. What does Domingo teach Blackthorne?
(a) how to keep warm in the cell.
(b) some Biblical history.
(c) some words and phrases in Japanese.
(d) how to plan an escape.

4. What does Yabu find on the Erasmus?
(a) stowaways and maps of the Pacific Ocean.
(b) rum, Chinese silks, coconuts, and bananas.
(c) muskets, gold, silver, plate, coins, and fancy clothing.
(d) dynamite, fuses, water mines, and wine.

5. How does Blackthorne realize he is not going to be executed?
(a) they give him a musket.
(b) they take him out of the prison courtyard.
(c) they tell him in Portuguese.
(d) they give him a bath and new clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What history does Domingo tell Blackthorne about?

2. How is the Englishman killed?

3. Who does Blackthorne meet in prison?

4. Who comes to take Blackthorne from the pit?

5. What is Rodrigues carrying for Father Sebastio?

Short Essay Questions

1. What prompts Blackthorne to attack Father Sabastio and desecrate his wooden cross?

2. Why does Buntaro prepare to commit seppuku at the end of a jetty?

3. When the samurai who fails to carry through on his actions is ordered to be executed, who is given the job?

4. Why is the ship Toranaga is on unable to leave the harbor?

5. How is the Portuguese pilot, Rodrigues, introduced into the story?

6. Why does Yabu personally scale the cliffs to rescue Rodrigues?

7. What is the first indication of the brutality of the samurai in the novel?

8. Why does Blackthorne want to get on board the Erasmus?

9. Why is Rodrigues swept overboard on the galley?

10. What does Blackthorne insist on as soon as he gets the galley into a safe harbor?

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