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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. While Yabu is telling Omi that the next battle will be fought at sea, what does he see entering the bay?
(a) the HMS Pinafore.
(b) a ship flying the flag of Toranaga.
(c) a fleet of English warships.
(d) a pod of whales.

2. What history does Domingo tell Blackthorne about?
(a) traders who came to Japan over a century ago.
(b) the rise and fall of the shōguns.
(c) the migration of the Japanese from mainland Asia.
(d) the religion of the Japanese.

3. What does Blackthorne suspect about Father Sabastio?
(a) that he is a spy for the Portuguese
(b) that he is using Blackthorne to elevate his own position.
(c) that he is not interpreting properly for the Japanese.
(d) that he fears for his own life by talking to him.

4. How is Rodrigues found the morning after the storm?
(a) alive and well at the bottom of a cliff.
(b) barely alive at the bottom of a cliff.
(c) floating face down in the surf at the bottom of a cliff.
(d) dead and mangled at the bottom of a cliff.

5. How is Rodrigues when the galley arrives safely in Osaka?
(a) he is dead.
(b) he is conscious.
(c) he is delirious.
(d) he is still unconscious.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toranaga leave the palace in Osaka?

2. What does the samurai Omi do when one man fails to bow upon his arrival?

3. What does Yabu find on the Erasmus?

4. What causes Toranaga to have trouble sleeping?

5. How does Blackthorne realize he is not going to be executed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are Blackthorne and his crew held prisoners?

2. What sets up the conflict between Blackthorne and Omi that lasts for the remainder of the novel?

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

4. How is tension presented in Toranaga's character after meeting Ishido?

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

6. How close does Blackthorne come to being executed in Yedo after visiting Toranaga?

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

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

9. How does John Blackthorne arrive in Japan?

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

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