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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter II, "Mother and Son" Pages 47-64.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kinuyo give her son when he left for Kyoto?
(a) A pocket watch.
(b) Money.
(c) A letter.
(d) A photograph.

2. Why does Nagare ask Gohtaro if something is wrong with his coffee?
(a) He is trying to eavesdrop on Gohtaro and Shuichi's conversation.
(b) He misunderstands Gohtaro's upset expression.
(c) He disapproves of the commotion Gohtaro and Shuichi are causing.
(d) He is reminding Gohtaro of the passing time.

3. After Kyoko leaves, who is in the café with Kazu?
(a) Miki.
(b) Kiyoshi.
(c) The ghost.
(d) Nagare.

4. How does Kyoko react to Nagare's suggestion about a present for Kiyoshi's wife?
(a) She laughs and tells Nagare he does not understand women.
(b) She praises it effusively, saying she wishes her husband thought like Nagare.
(c) She politely suggests a slight improvement in the plan.
(d) She dismisses it as completely unhelpful.

5. Besides a love of insects, what does the narrator say links Japanese culture to the other culture discussed in the opening of "Mother and Son"?
(a) Pottery techniques.
(b) Traditional foods.
(c) Traditional etiquette.
(d) Language features.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kiyoshi Manda's job?

2. Why does Kiyoshi feel unsure about what to get his wife for her birthday?

3. What does Gohtaro surmise about the woman who seems to be the girl's mother from her conversation with Nagare?

4. What is Kyoko's objection to Gohtaro's plan to travel back into the past?

5. What can the reader infer from the conversation between Nagare and the woman who seems to be the girl's mother?

(see the answer key)

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