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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helene do with the gift that Joncour gives her after his first trip to Japan?
(a) She never wears it.
(b) She wears it all the time.
(c) She puts it in a trunk for her daughter.
(d) She wears it to parties.

2. With whom does Joncour negotiate the sale of silk eggs the first time?
(a) A Japanese official.
(b) A man masked by black silk.
(c) A man he meets in the harbor of Japan.
(d) The mistress of Hara Kei.

3. What is remarkable about the young girl with Hara Kei?
(a) She is very thin.
(b) She has very dark skin.
(c) She has blue eyes.
(d) She does not have an Asian look to her eyes.

4. What happens to Joncour's neighbor in the end?
(a) He moves in with Helene and Joncour.
(b) His daughters take care of him until he dies.
(c) His wife and daughters leave him and he dies.
(d) His wife puts him away in a hospital for the insane.

5. What did Herve Joncour's father want him to do for a living?
(a) Have a career in the army.
(b) Be mayor.
(c) Be a silk manufacturer.
(d) Be a baker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Baldabiou say it is like to hold Japanese silk?

2. How does Joncour get across the Japanese harbor?

3. Five years after Baldabiou arrived on the scene, how many silk factories were established in the town?

4. What would happen to the Japanese if they immigrated?

5. What does Joncour enjoy in life?

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