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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: pages 46-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kino worry about Jiya?
(a) He walks with a limp lately.
(b) He doesn't think he will ever be happy again.
(c) He doesn't think he will pass to the next grade.
(d) He can't remember things anymore.

2. Why is Kino glad that he lives up so high on the mountain?
(a) He pretends he is king of the world.
(b) He can see the sea below.
(c) Sometimes it snows there.
(d) He can almost touch clouds.

3. Jiya claims he will build his house once he has ___________________.
(a) A wife.
(b) Fishing nets.
(c) Tools.
(d) A boat.

4. What has the Old Gentleman spent his whole life trying to do?
(a) Save foolish people from the big wave.
(b) Build the biggest castle in Japan.
(c) Write a history of Japan.
(d) Find the perfect boy to adopt.

5. Jiya will one day be able to live with the fact of his family members being dead by _______________________.
(a) Looking at pictures of them.
(b) Praying to them.
(c) Carrying them in his memories.
(d) Naming his children after them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a reason that Kino opposes Jiya's choice for a wife?

2. Kino's father says that Jiya will _______________________ when he wakes.

3. Who is Kino's sister?

4. Where do the surviving fishermen fish now?

5. Jiya's family members will live as long as ______________________.

(see the answer key)

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