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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter II, "Mother and Son" Pages 65-81.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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 etiquette.
(c) Language features.
(d) Traditional foods.
2. When Gohtaro travels into the past, what does the reader realize about the young man whom Gohtaro and Shuichi thought should be a rugby player?
(a) The young man is a ghost.
(b) The young man is Kaname's son.
(c) The young man is Nagare.
(d) The young man is Kazu's father.
3. How old is Gohtaro's daughter?
(a) 21.
(b) Nearly 23.
(c) Nearly 19.
(d) 25.
4. What is Shuichi's primary response to seeing the camera that Gohtaro has brought with him?
(a) Shuichi refuses to believe that the object is a camera.
(b) Shuichi is impressed with the technology.
(c) Shuichi is suspicious about Gohtaro wanting to record him.
(d) Shuichi is jealous that Gohtaro can afford such things.
5. When Gohtaro returns to the present, what is the first thing that he wants to do?
(a) Thank Nagare for saving him twice during his journey into the past.
(b) Get out of the ghost chair before Kaname returns.
(c) Find out from Kazu who Kaname really is.
(d) Check the recording of Shuichi to make sure it was not all a dream.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whom does Gohtaro think that the woman who seems to be the young girl's mother looks very like?
2. What is implied when the narrator says that, upon hearing of his mother's death, Yukio "heard a tautly stretched string snapping inside his head" (66)?
3. What physical details are frequently used to identify Nagare to the reader?
4. What is Kazu's relationship to Miki's father?
5. When Yukio apologizes to his mother and asks for her forgiveness, what is he responding to?
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