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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 52-54.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the caged animals at the entrance to Hara Kei's house meant to signify?
(a) That Hara Kei's house is the most handsome.
(b) The beauty of the land.
(c) The fidelity of Hara Kei's mistress.
(d) Hara Kei's wealth.

2. What is Joncour wearing on the last leg of the journey into Japan?
(a) A blindfold.
(b) A suit.
(c) Dark glasses.
(d) A shirt and shorts.

3. When Hara Kei was a child, his father told him to shoot an arrow into the air. What was Hara Hei supposed to do after that?
(a) Shoot another arrow in the opposite direction.
(b) Follow the flight of the arrow to find his fortune.
(c) Watch it disappear from view.
(d) Get the dead bird.

4. When Joncour gets off the train and opens the eggs on his way home on the fourth trip, what does he find?
(a) Millions of larvae dead.
(b) All the eggs smashed.
(c) The eggs are fine.
(d) The eggs are gone.

5. Other than money, what does Joncour have for his trip to Japan?
(a) A good map.
(b) His luggage.
(c) The names of 3 men: a Chinaman, Dutchman and Japanese man.
(d) Passage already booked ahead of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Joncour arrives in the village of Hara Kei on the fourth trip, what, in his mind, does he see?

2. What does Baldabiou think Joncour is doing with the house he buys?

3. What does Joncour notice about the other passengers on the train as he travels home from his fourth trip to Japan?

4. What does Joncour draw designs for after he buys the other house?

5. When Helene vacations with her husband in the villa by the sea, what does she think it will do?

(see the answer key)

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