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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. Where are the peasants made to dig three holes?
(a) The courtyard
(b) A graveyard
(c) The magistrate's garden
(d) A field

2. From where does the unknown guest come?
(a) The north
(b) The south
(c) The west
(d) The east

3. What do the children throw at his window?
(a) Raw meat
(b) Manure
(c) Stones
(d) Fruit

4. Who does Rodrigues ask for an explanation?
(a) A guard
(b) Jesus
(c) Inoue
(d) God

5. To whom does Rodrigues compare Kichijiro?
(a) Judas
(b) Jesus
(c) Pele
(d) Moses

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the trampling called?

2. Who else works at the magistrates office?

3. What word best describes Rodrigues' prison cell?

4. Why is the caravan covered?

5. What does a guard give Rodrigues one morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Rodrigues' meeting with the five samurai.

2. How does Rodrigues react to the sound of his jailer snoring?

3. How does the interpreter treat Rodrigues now that he is employed by the magistrate?

4. What ultimatum does the samurai give Rodrigues in Chapter 5?

5. Why can Rodrigues and Ferreira no longer get along?

6. Where do the guards take Rodrigues in Chapter 5?

7. What does Rodrigues realize in Chapter 7?

8. What are Rodrigues' feelings towards Ferreira?

9. What happens to the elderly man in Chapter 6?

10. What do Ferreria and Rodrigues talk about in Chapter 7?

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