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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. What shape will the new schoolhouse be in the village?
(a) Round.
(b) Square.
(c) Pentagon shaped.
(d) Triangle.

2. What is the first industry that Fisby sets up for the village?
(a) Making kimonos.
(b) Making geta and cricket cages.
(c) Collecting shells.
(d) Sewing white robes.

3. Under what title should information be reported about children being born?
(a) "Populations booms."
(b) "Newborns."
(c) "Pregnancies."
(d) "Population Increases."

4. What is Lotus Blossom doing when Col. Purdy calls at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2?
(a) Making tea for Fisby.
(b) Fanning Fisby.
(c) Dancing for Fisby.
(d) Reading to Fisby.

5. What did Fisby do before the war?
(a) He was a mechanic.
(b) He was a manager at a grocery store.
(c) He was a professor of Humanities.
(d) He was a janitor at a college.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what language does Col. Purdy count his laundry items?

2. When Fisby tells one of the people to get off, what does this character say to Fisby?

3. When someone gives a cricket cage, what is not included?

4. Why is the person or animal who jumps on right before the group leaves traveling?

5. How many weeks have passed at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do cricket cages always come empty? What does this idea tell us about the philosophy of the people of Tobiki?

2. 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?

3. Who does Col. Purdy decide to send to check on Fisby? Why?

4. What is the symbol behind a chrysanthemum bud? Why does Lotus Blossom give this to Fisby? Why does this bother him?

5. What is happening as Act 2, Scene 2 opens? What does this action suggest about Fisby's character? What has changed about Fisby?

6. What speech is Fisby going to give when he arrives in Tobiki? What does Sakini call the speech? Why? What does this tell the audience about the history of the island and its people?

7. Is the ancient man who jumps on the jeep at the last minute a symbol for something? What?

8. Why does Fisby prefer to wear a straw hat after he's been in the village for awhile? Does this indicate a change of heart in other ways too? What?

9. What did Col. Purdy promise his wife? What does this tell the audience about his marriage to Mrs. Purdy?

10. Why is McLean upset about being sent away? How does he view what will happen to his plants?

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