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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the letters say at the end?
(a) "We will not see each other anymore."
(b) "I am with Hara Kei now."
(c) "Have many children with your wife."
(d) "Go to the lake and think of me."

2. What does Joncour do in the house he buys?
(a) He re-paints.
(b) He empties it out.
(c) He sits.
(d) He cleans it up.

3. What does Joncour see when the procession with the mistress goes by him?
(a) The blue of the sky.
(b) The mistress' eyes.
(c) The brightly-colored fabrics.
(d) The flames of war.

4. Why does Baldabiou NOT want to send Joncour back to Japan for a fourth trip?
(a) Because he knows Joncour is having an affair.
(b) Because he does not want to pay him.
(c) Because it's so dangerous.
(d) Because he is in love with Helene.

5. When Joncour leaves town on his third trip, what does he do on the way out of town?
(a) Shoots a sitting bird.
(b) Cries at the last sight of the village.
(c) Shoots his revolver into the air to scare the resting birds.
(d) Screams at the top of the hill into the air.

6. When, according to Joncour, should birds be released from an aviary?
(a) When the afternoon sun looks red.
(b) When the birds are mature.
(c) When something wonderful happens.
(d) When the tide turns.

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

8. When Helene vacations with her husband in the villa by the sea, what does she think it will do?
(a) Help her to forget Baldabiou.
(b) Help her husband's melancholy humor.
(c) Help her to feel younger.
(d) Help her to have a baby.

9. How many girls do Helene and Joncour have?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

10. As Joncour and the boy travel from the burned village of Hara Kei, what are people doing in the villages?
(a) Hiding in their houses.
(b) Running out to greet them.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Making food out in the open.

11. What does Louis Pasteur decide about the silk egg production in Chapter 41?
(a) He thinks that it is hopeless.
(b) He thinks that 30 percent of the eggs will be healthy.
(c) He thinks that he can cure the eggs.
(d) He tinks that 50 percent of the eggs will be bad.

12. What does Helene ask Joncour to promise before he leaves for his fourth trip to Japan?
(a) To stay if he wants to.
(b) To return early.
(c) To return.
(d) To go through China.

13. When the boy appears in the village of Hara Kei on the fourth trip, what does he give to Joncour?
(a) A blue flower.
(b) An exotic bird.
(c) Joncour's glove.
(d) Mulberry bark.

14. What tone are the letters written in?
(a) A happy tone.
(b) An excited tone.
(c) A sexual tone.
(d) A bland tone.

15. What does Joncour do with the envelope he receives after his last trip to Japan?
(a) He stores it in the house across the street.
(b) He hides it with his folded shirts.
(c) He carries it with him for days.
(d) He throws it away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joncour offer Hara Kei when he catches up to him on the fourth trip?

2. When Joncour sees his wife flirt with the Englishman, what happens to him?

3. When Joncour and the boy catch up to the procession of Hara Kei, what travels behind Hara Kei?

4. When Joncour tells Baldabiou about the mistress, what does he say?

5. Where do the two Italians get good eggs from?

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