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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Woman say she tried to fill the silence with?
(a) Prayers.
(b) Beautiful flowers.
(c) The sound of a voice.
(d) The music of her flute.

2. In the fifth scene, why does the Man excitedly congratulate himself?
(a) He has learned to play the flute.
(b) He has found a hidden treasure.
(c) He has finished composing a song.
(d) He has removed the stain from the floor.

3. What is the Man doing when the Woman asks him to join her in the eighth scene?
(a) Doing chores.
(b) Drinking tea.
(c) Practicing with a sword.
(d) Meditating.

4. What does the Man kill with his sword?
(a) A mosquito.
(b) A grasshopper.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A bird.

5. What does the Man pick up at the end of the final scene?
(a) His sword.
(b) His hat.
(c) The Woman's flute.
(d) The vase of flowers.

6. What is the Man doing at the end of the play?
(a) Practicing with his sword.
(b) Walking to meet the Woman.
(c) Meditating.
(d) Playing the flute.

7. What reason does the Man say he no longer can stay with the Woman?
(a) He has a wife already.
(b) He has to return home.
(c) He has been defeated.
(d) He was never in love with her.

8. What does the Man discover happened to him after he stops meditating?
(a) He is cut and bleeding under his chin.
(b) He no longer can see.
(c) He has lost all his money.
(d) His hearing has gone.

9. What does the Woman first say of her knowledge with a sword?
(a) She knows nothing.
(b) She has learned much from her brother.
(c) She is an expert.
(d) She knows how to defend herself.

10. What is the Woman wearing in the sixth scene?
(a) Her nightshirt.
(b) A suit of armor.
(c) A fancy dress.
(d) A beautiful kimono.

11. When the Man looks through the screen at night in Scene 6, what does he see?
(a) The full moon.
(b) The Woman.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A family of deer.

12. What does the Woman understand the Man's confession to mean?
(a) He truly loved her.
(b) He came to kill her.
(c) He was lying and was a theif.
(d) He was playing a joke on her.

13. What reason does the Woman give for teaching herself?
(a) So she will never go hungry.
(b) So she can chase away the silence.
(c) So she will never forget.
(d) So she will be protected from the wild.

14. What does the Man want the Woman to do for him one day in Scene 5?
(a) Become his wife.
(b) Make his favorite food.
(c) Write him a story.
(d) Play her music for him.

15. What does the Woman say she dreamed about?
(a) The song of the flute.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The Man making her laugh.
(d) The Man and his sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Woman want the Man to do with the sword when she is scared in Scene 8?

2. In Scene 5, what does the Man tell the Woman he heard her doing at night?

3. What does the Man confess to the Woman in Scene 9?

4. What does the Man get rid of for the Woman in Scene 5?

5. At the beginning of Scene 8, what is the Woman doing?

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