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

2. What sentence is pronounced on Blackthorne's men?
(a) one of them must kill the others.
(b) they must become slaves.
(c) they will be deported.
(d) one of them must die.

3. What does Blackthorne want to do?
(a) take command of the galley.
(b) search the coastline for Rodrigues.
(c) apply for Rodriguez's job.
(d) escape during the confusion.

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

5. What does Blackthorne suspect about the daimyo, Kasigi Yabu, Lord of Izu?
(a) that he is disinterested in Blackthorne.
(b) he does not fully trust Sabastio.
(c) that he understands English.
(d) that he will carry out the wishes of Father Sabastio.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rodrigues begin to feel about Blackthorne?

2. What is the difference between the Erasmus and the galley headed to Osaka?

3. When Blackthorne's name is called, what does he think at first?

4. What does Yabu find on the Erasmus?

5. Who has instructions to answer every question except those related to politics?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Rodrigues swept overboard on the galley?

2. How does Omi persuade Blackthorne to come out of the pit?

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

4. Describe the change in Toranaga's orders related to Blackthorne after he is removed from prison.

5. What does Blackthorne tell Toranaga at their first meeting that puzzled him?

6. How is one of the crew brutally tortured to death?

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

8. What is the diversion that allows Toranaga, dressed as a woman, to change places with Kiri in the palanquin?

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

10. What are Blackthorne's questions Toranaga tells Mariko not to answer?

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