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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. Why does Lotus Blossom put on a wresting match?
(a) It is Fisby's birthday.
(b) The celebrate the goods being sold at market.
(c) To celebrate the opening of the Teahouse.
(d) It is tradition.

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

6. 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) "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall".
(d) "Sunnyside of the Street".

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

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

9. Why does Capt. McLean want to leave the meeting with Col. Purdy?
(a) He needs to stop the villagers from over-watering his seedlings.
(b) He needs to go to the teahouse.
(c) He needs to transplant his seedlings.
(d) He is needed at the stills.

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

11. What do the villagers get drunk on?
(a) Plum wine.
(b) Rice wine.
(c) Brandy.
(d) Apple wine.

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

13. What does Fisby call the teahouse?
(a) Cho Yo.
(b) The Blossom.
(c) The Moon.
(d) Cha Ya.

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

15. What really happened to the teahouse at the end of the play?
(a) Fisby hid it.
(b) The villagers hid it.
(c) The villagers moved it to another village.
(d) The villagers destroyed it themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of liquor is Fisby going to serve Col. Purdy at the end of the play?

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

3. What do all the villagers do when Col. Purdy enters after the wrestling match?

4. What does Fisby say about the villagers' work?

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

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