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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the winner of the wresting match get?
(a) To build a house for Lotus Blossom.
(b) A free plant.
(c) To haul sweet potatoes for Lotus Blossom.
(d) To have Lotus Blossom as a Geisha.

3. How many lectures has Fisby given to the village children on Democratic Theory?
(a) One.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

4. According to Sakini at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 2, what has the island of Okinawa survived?
(a) Earthquakes and tsunami.
(b) Gypsy moth, frog, and cicada invasion.
(c) Chinese pirates, Japanese warlords, English missionaries, and American Marines.
(d) French and American missionaries and American Marines.

5. When Fisby has been ordered to leave, what does Lotus Blossom want?
(a) She wants to marry Sakini.
(b) She wants to go to Tokyo.
(c) She wants to marry McLean.
(d) She wants to marry Fisby.

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

7. According to Sakini, how does fortune often come?
(a) When we least expect it.
(b) In the back door while we look out the window.
(c) From the mouths of our mothers.
(d) Inside a fortune cookie.

8. According to Sakini at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 2, what has invaded the island of Okinawa?
(a) Typhoons, locusts, cockroaches, and the sweet potato moth.
(b) Frogs, cicadas, and American Marines.
(c) Tsunami, typhoons, and rats
(d) Japanese pirates, and plague.

9. What will be the punishment for Fisby?
(a) Court-martial.
(b) He will be jailed.
(c) $5000.00 fine.
(d) Discharge from the army.

10. What is Capt. McLean's lie to Fisby about why he is visiting the village?
(a) He's always wanted to see the beach.
(b) He claims to be on leave and wants to make some ethnological studies.
(c) He says he wants to see a teahouse built.
(d) He's always wanted to see the jungle.

11. What does it mean for Fisby to cover his face with the fan when he starts the wrestling match?
(a) That he is blind to the loser.
(b) That he is not to speak during the fight.
(c) That it is too hot to hold the fight.
(d) That he is not taking sides.

12. What does Fisby say about Col. Purdy's mother?
(a) That she could see anything that goes on in the teahouse.
(b) The he should call his mother and get her thoughts on the teahouse.
(c) That she would disapprove of anything that goes on in the teahouse.
(d) That she will be disappointed if he doesn't make General.

13. What are the men wading in next to where they are building the teahouse?
(a) A stream.
(b) The lake.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The lotus pond.

14. What does Fisby ask the villagers to do as they sing after the wrestling match?
(a) Yell.
(b) Laugh.
(c) Sing.
(d) Clap.

15. What does Col. Purdy tell Gregovich to do with the stills?
(a) Destroy them all.
(b) Dismantle them and take them back.
(c) Inspect them.
(d) Learn how to use them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Haitian word for sweet potato?

2. How do Fisby and Capt. McLean taste test the liquor?

3. What man from town would Lotus Blossom like to marry in the end?

4. What are the kimonos made from?

5. What is the name of the special liquor taste tester?

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