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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 mean death.
(b) Black is Lotus Blossom's favorite color.
(c) Nothing. Just easy to keep clean.
(d) Black is the symbol of the moon.

2. Where does Col. Purdy tell Gregovich to pile the lumber?
(a) By the warehouse.
(b) By the houses.
(c) By the pond.
(d) In the grove.

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

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

5. What did Col. Purdy promise his wife?
(a) That he would be home by July.
(b) That he will build her a house after retirement.
(c) That he would come out of the army a General.
(d) That he would retire this year.

6. What does Gregovich really destroy?
(a) Cisterns.
(b) Stills.
(c) Large pots.
(d) Water barrels.

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

8. When Lotus Blossom asks Fisby if she can marry someone else, what does he tell her?
(a) That she must ask her father.
(b) That he will think about it.
(c) That she must ask the Geisha guild.
(d) That it is her decision.

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

10. At the end of the play, what does Sakini wish that the August Moon brings to the audience?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) A happy life.
(c) A good fortune.
(d) A gentle sleep.

11. 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.

12. What did Lotus Blossom need a teahouse for?
(a) For a place to live.
(b) For a place to drink tea.
(c) For a place to teach the ladies how to become Geisha.
(d) For a place to teach dance.

13. What are some of Capt. McLean's favorite plants?
(a) Cucumbers - Extra Early Green Prolific; Radishes - Crimson Giant; Tomatoes - Ponderosa Earliana; and Watermelon.
(b) Celery, Lettuce, and Snow Root Strawberries.
(c) Super Red Tomatoes and Carrot Root.
(d) Jolly Green Giant Peas and Idaho Potatoes.

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

15. For what special occasions is the liquor made?
(a) Spring dances.
(b) End-of-war dances.
(c) Teahouse celebrations.
(d) Weddings and funerals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will be the name of the street the teahouse sits on?

2. What did some "fool Senator" do back in Washington?

3. What, according to Capt. McLean, do earthworms do?

4. How many lectures has Fisby given to the village children on Democratic Theory?

5. When the teahouse is put back together, what is the last light to come on?

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