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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Fisby and Capt. McLean taste test the liquor?
(a) They give it to Sakini.
(b) They drink it.
(c) They give it to a goat.
(d) They watch the villagers drink it first.

2. What does Col. Purdy think of the Co-Op?
(a) He thinks it's terrible.
(b) He thinks it's brilliant.
(c) He thinks it's Communism.
(d) He thinks it's Socialism.

3. What is Fisby going to call his new liquor company?
(a) Sakini Brewing Company.
(b) Okinawa Brewing Company.
(c) Tobiki Brewery.
(d) Cooperative Brewing Company of Tobiki.

4. What is the name of the special liquor taste tester?
(a) Fisby and McLean.
(b) Elsa Maxwell.
(c) Lady Astor.
(d) Sakini.

5. How many castings do earthworms leave behind?
(a) Two times their own weight every day.
(b) Eight times their own weight every day.
(c) Two times their own weight every week.
(d) They don't leave behind castings.

6. What is the significance of one of the contestant's black shorts during the wresting match?
(a) Black mean death.
(b) Black is the symbol of the moon.
(c) Black is Lotus Blossom's favorite color.
(d) Nothing. Just easy to keep clean.

7. What is Lotus Blossom going to do to remember Fisby?
(a) She is going to write to him in America.
(b) She is going to paint his picture.
(c) She wants to take a picture with him.
(d) She is going to make up a song about him to sing in the teahouse.

8. Why are all the villagers returning at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 4 with all of their bundles?
(a) They sold their goods and bought new items for their homes.
(b) The cart broke a wheel on the way and they could not get through.
(c) The American soldiers would not buy their goods.
(d) The trail to the army base was washed out.

9. When Fisby offers Capt. McLean tsukemomo, he refuses saying he just ate what?
(a) Candy.
(b) An apple.
(c) A chocolate bar.
(d) A piece of pie.

10. What does Sakini want to do when he realizes that Fisby is leaving?
(a) He wants to go with him.
(b) He wants to plant crops with McLean.
(c) He wants to go back to work with Col. Purdy.
(d) He wants to stay in his village.

11. Whom does Fisby call first to try to sell the liquor?
(a) The officer's club in Awasi.
(b) Maj. McEvoy.
(c) Col. Purdy.
(d) Tokyo Bars.

12. Where is the money earned from the sale of liquor?
(a) Banked in Seattle.
(b) In Tokyo.
(c) In New York.
(d) Under the teahouse.

13. What, according to Capt. McLean, do bees do?
(a) They sting children.
(b) They are important for pollination.
(c) They sing a beautiful song.
(d) They make honey.

14. What does Fisby say about the villagers' work?
(a) He says nothing about their work.
(b) He is sorry that their work isn't better.
(c) He tells them they should all be proud of their work.
(d) He tells them maybe they can do better work.

15. Who is thrown from the ring during the wrestling match?
(a) Mr. Hokaida.
(b) McLean.
(c) Sakini.
(d) Mr. Oshira.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Col. Purdy tells Capt. McLean that he will be leaving, how does Capt. McLean describe what will happen to his plant?

2. What is the villagers' liquor made from?

3. What will be the punishment for Fisby?

4. What does tsukemono mean?

5. What do the townspeople want to buy with the money they make from selling liquor?

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