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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. How do people on Okinawa travel?
(a) By bus.
(b) On generosity.
(c) Goats.
(d) By boat.

2. What should Fisby wear when he goes in the sun?
(a) A kasa or straw hat.
(b) A helmet.
(c) Sunscreen.
(d) He takes an umbrella.

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

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

5. What is the daughter pushing when she arrives in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) A shopping cart.
(b) A wheelbarrow.
(c) A bike.
(d) A baby stroller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What magazine does Col. Purdy read?

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

3. What should Fisby be wearing out in the sun according to Col. Purdy?

4. How does Sakini explain to Fisby that the animal has no children?

5. Why did Fisby not report the birth of six kids in his report to the Col. under Population Increases?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does the audience become aware of McLean's hobby? How does McLean react to the mention of chemicals being used on plants in the area? What does he propose doing instead? What does this tell the audience about McLean's character?

2. Describe the road to Tobiki. What does this tell the audience about how the journey will go?

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

5. 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?

6. Why will the mayor of Tobiki "lose face" if his grandmother does not arrive? What do you think "lose face" means in this story?

7. Describe the Tobiki Co-Operative. How is it set up? Why does Col. Purdy think it is Communism?

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 do you think is the difference between the goods made by the villagers and those sold in the 5&10 cent stores? Discuss machine vs. handmade.

10. 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?

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