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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is eating up the Chinese peas?
(a) The Chinese beetles.
(b) The Asian beetles.
(c) The sea beetles.
(d) The Japanese beetles.

2. What did the potential buyers think of the straw hats?
(a) They wanted a bandana around the hats for color.
(b) They wanted the hats to be in different colors.
(c) They thought it would make them look like country singers.
(d) They thought it would make them look like "hayseed."

3. What will be the name of the street the teahouse sits on?
(a) McLean Street.
(b) Fisby Road.
(c) Sakini Lane.
(d) Grace Purdy Avenue.

4. What song do Fisby and Capt. McLean sing after the wrestling match?
(a) "Deep in the Heart of Texas".
(b) "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain".
(c) "Sunnyside of the Street".
(d) "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall".

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

6. What, according to Capt. McLean, do earthworms do?
(a) They are "food for animals in your garden."
(b) They "aereate your soil."
(c) They "eat your plants."
(d) They "feed your plants."

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

8. What do all the villagers do when Col. Purdy enters after the wrestling match?
(a) They yell at him.
(b) They block him.
(c) They all run away.
(d) They continue singing.

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

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

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

12. Who is wresting?
(a) McLean and Seiko.
(b) Seiko and Sakini.
(c) The Mayor and Mr. Oshira.
(d) The Chief of Agriculture and the Chief of Police.

13. Why did the potential buyers think the price was too high?
(a) They are comparing prices with European goods.
(b) They are comparing the prices with prices on the base.
(c) They are comparing prices with manufactured goods.
(d) Americans can buy goods in a five and ten cent store and wouldn't pay more than a nickel.

14. What are the kimonos made from?
(a) Bathrobes.
(b) Cloth made in the village.
(c) Target cloth.
(d) Parachute silk.

15. What is the name of the teahouse?
(a) Lotus Blossom Teahouse.
(b) Moon Teahouse.
(c) Teahouse of the August Moon.
(d) Tobiki Teahouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fisby call the teahouse?

2. Fisby tells Capt. McLean that he feels free. When does he say this feeling started?

3. What does Gregovich really destroy?

4. What really happened to the teahouse at the end of the play?

5. What does Col. Purdy tell Gregovich to do with the stills?

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