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

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

3. What does Joncour do first when he arrives back at his home?
(a) Goes to his garden.
(b) Goes to Nice.
(c) Goes to High Mass.
(d) Goes to see Baldabieu.

4. What color flowers does Madame Blanche wear?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

5. When Joncour asks the Englishman about the woman with Hara Kei, what does he say?
(a) "White women do not exist in Japan."
(b) "Are you sure she is English?"
(c) "I've seen her too."
(d) "I wouldn't ask if I were you."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to Japan in 1853?

2. What is Madame Blanche's street address?

3. Who gives Joncour his bath?

4. What is Madame Blanche wearing the first time Joncour meets her?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the young girl accompanying Hara Kei not have an Asian slant to her eyes? Does this give the reader a clue to her past? What?

2. For the third trip to Japan, who decides that Joncour should go? How much say does he have in this decision?

3. Why are the silkworms of Japan not affected by disease? What is their history of trade?

4. Describe how silk eggs hatch and what happens to them.

5. After his travels to Africa, how does Joncour describe his trip when someone asks? Why does he not give a better description?

6. When Joncour meets the Englishman in Japan who is selling guns, he asks about the girl. What is the Englishman's reply? Do you think the Englishman has seen the girl? Do you think he knows more than he is saying? What?

7. How much of the year does Joncour work? How much time does he have for leisure? Describe his work routine.

8. How does Baldabiou convince the Mayor to establish factories that produce silk? How does money play into the decision for Baldabiou? How does money affect the decision of the Mayor?

9. What is the symbolism of the exotic birds kept caged at the house of Hara Kei? What does this tell Joncour? What else does Joncour see at Hara Kei's house?

10. What animal does Baldabiou ask about upon Joncour's return from his first trip abroad? What does he do later to pay tribute to these animals? What are these animals a symbol for?

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