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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. To whom does Lotus Blossom pay her dues?
(a) The Teahouse Guild.
(b) The Artisan Guild.
(c) The Okinawan Guild.
(d) The Geisha Guild.

2. What do the villagers do at 5:30 p.m.?
(a) Go to bed.
(b) Go to the local teahouse.
(c) Sit in the pine grove, sip tea, and watch the sun go down.
(d) Make brandy.

3. What items does Miss Higa Jiga want Fisby to send for so that the women in the village can compete with Lotus Blossom?
(a) New wigs.
(b) New white cloth.
(c) New Kimono material.
(d) Lip stick, powder, and bobby-pins.

4. What is the first kind of business Fisby thinks of starting in the village?
(a) Teaching school for entire area.
(b) A souvenir business.
(c) Manual labor.
(d) Farming.

5. What will happen if Fisby does not take the person sitting on top of the bundles?
(a) Sakini will cry.
(b) Fisby will lose face.
(c) The mayor of Tobiki village will be mad at him.
(d) The old woman will be mad at Fisby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the daughter pushing when she arrives in Act 1, Scene 2?

2. What does Miss Higa Jiga say is happening in the village?

3. Who does Purdy believe wrote the "Tale of Two Cities"?

4. What does Col. Purdy want to talk to Fisby about on the telephone?

5. Why is the daughter going on the trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the clue that Col. Purdy is not a very learned man?

3. Why does Lotus Blossom want to go to America? How does she see the country? What does Fisby think would be her reality?

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

5. How does Sakini refer to the goat as a person? What does he say to Fisby? Why is there no reaction from Fisby?

6. What does Fisby offer Capt. McLean upon his arrival? Why is this important?

7. What does Miss Higa Jiga threaten to do if Fisby does not agree with her request? Why is this important? What does this do to the story?

8. When Fisby offers Capt. McLean tsukemomo, McLean declines saying he just ate something. What? What is important about what Capt. McLean just ate? How does this outline the conflict between McLean and Fisby?

9. What shape is the new school to be built? Why is this important? Do you think the villagers understand the meaning of this symbol? Why?

10. What does Fisby say to the villagers after their failure selling their good? Why does he want them to be proud of their work? Why is their work different?

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