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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gillanders speculates that Kabuo could not have
(a) Forced Carl to board his boat
(b) Forced Carl to head back to shore
(c) Made a forced boarding
(d) Pulled up his own nets

2. Carl Heine and Susan Marie Heine's marriage was a relationship based on
(a) Money
(b) Sex
(c) Children
(d) Convenience

3. By pointing out his change of story, Alvin Hooks wants the jury to
(a) Remember that Japs lie
(b) Dislike the defendant
(c) Consider Carl's wife
(d) Doubt Kabuo's credibility

4. Ishmael had always pretended that his visits to his mother's home
(a) Were just habit
(b) Were just a duty
(c) Were for her benefit
(d) Were without strings

5. At the trial, Susan Marie's demeanor inspires
(a) Doubt in the jury
(b) Suspicion in the courtroom
(c) Anger in the courtroom
(d) Sympathy in the courtroom

6. Before he set out to fish, Kabuo put his hand on the water and
(a) Cooled his green tea
(b) Measured its coldness
(c) Prayed for luck and safety
(d) Scared away a gull

7. Nels Gundersson at 79, feels as though he
(a) Could still have a good sex life
(b) Has been betrayed by his body
(c) Is a wise and strong old man
(d) Is still a young man

8. Hatsue feels that the coffee cup found on the deck of Carl's boat indicates
(a) Carl was angry about something
(b) Carl was on another of his caffeine binges
(c) Something rocked the boat and knocked it down
(d) There was a fight in the cabin

9. Ishmael describes Kabuo's demeanor at trial as
(a) Rigid
(b) Inscrutable
(c) Guilty
(d) Evil

10. After the jury is excused, Ishmael contemplates his
(a) Plan to make sure Kabuo is convicted
(b) Decision not to give Soames the report
(c) Ongoing desire for Hatsue
(d) Prejudice against all Japanese

11. After the war Hatsue learned to live with
(a) Her husband's poor wages
(b) Kabuo's impotence
(c) Kabuo not wanting children
(d) Her husband's sorrow and guilt

12. Dr. Whitman has done an examination of
(a) Susan marie's motives
(b) Carl Heine's hand
(c) The fishing gaff
(d) Kabuo's mental state

13. Just as the Sheriff appeared with a search warrant, Kabuo had
(a) Accidentally killed a seagull
(b) Put his fishing gaff in the hold
(c) Been washing his boat
(d) Hidden his batteries away

14. Revisiting the old cedar tree of his youth, Ishmael realizes clearly that
(a) The beauty of the world is in its cold silence
(b) His youth lay in the empty cedar tree
(c) Passionate affairs are for the young
(d) He had no business coming to this tree

15. Ishmael allows himself to remember
(a) His childhood angst
(b) His baseball cards
(c) Other winter storms
(d) His father's character and values

Short Answer Questions

1. Hatsue testifies that the morning of Carl Heine's death, Kabuo came home

2. The best argument against the prosecution is that

3. Kabuo had felt he should be silent about events with Carl Heine

4. Carl and Susan Marie live in a

5. Helen Chambers reminds Ishmael to remember all the facts so that he can

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