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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who jumps on the back of the transportation just before they leave for the trip?
(a) An ancient man.
(b) Fisby.
(c) Another animal.
(d) Col. Purdy.

2. When, according to Col. Purdy, will US troops be out of Okinawa?
(a) In five years.
(b) By the next generation.
(c) In 100 years.
(d) By the next year.

3. What is Miss Higa Jiga complaining about in particular?
(a) The rice shortage.
(b) The democratic lectures.
(c) All the noise from the new building.
(d) That Lotus Blossom goes to the front of the line in the rice rations line.

4. What gift does Mr. Sumata bring for Fisby?
(a) A Geisha girl.
(b) Lumber.
(c) A house servant.
(d) A carpenter.

5. Why does Sakini walk so slowly?
(a) He was injured in the war.
(b) He's full from dinner.
(c) His shoes are too small.
(d) So his socks won't fall down.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what title should information be reported about children being born?

2. What did Fisby do before the war?

3. Why does the traveler need so many packages?

4. What items does Miss Higa Jiga want Fisby to send for so that the women in the village can compete with Lotus Blossom?

5. Why do the people of the village want to make Hokaida Chief of Police?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sakini describe Tobiki at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1? Why do those descriptions not go together? How does this create conflict?

2. Why do the villagers hide things? What does this tell the audience about their history?

3. After the arrival of Col. Purdy and the smashing of all the stills and closing the teahouse, what does Sakini want to do? Why do you think Fisby does not want to go along with Sakini's plan?

4. When the teahouse is reassembled on stage, what is the last light to come on? What is this symbolic of? How does this complete the play?

5. How is Lotus Blossom going to remember Fisby? What is she going to do in remembrance?

6. How are the villagers getting drunk? How do they make liquor? Why do they make it?

7. Why do the judges declare Mr. Hokaida the winner of the wrestling match?

8. How does Fisby achieve peace with himself in the end? What happens to his ambition? How does he describe his own balance?

9. How does Col. Purdy compare Fisby to Major McEvoy? What has Major McEvoy done in his village that the Col. admires? Why?

10. What does the old woman sitting on top of the jeep foreshadow? What clue does this character give to the general plot of the play?

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