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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 does Jiya think when he awakens and sees Kino's family?
(a) He thinks Kino's mother is beautiful.
(b) He doesn't know why he is with them.
(c) He must have had a sleepover with Kino.
(d) He doesn't recognize them.

2. 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) Carrying them in his memories.
(c) Praying to them.
(d) Naming his children after them.

3. Kino's father agrees with Jiya in that _____________ would be good for Jiya right now.
(a) Food.
(b) Music.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Books.

4. Which of the following does Kino NOT discover about the sea and why Jiya is afraid of it?
(a) It stings his skin.
(b) It is cold.
(c) It is very still.
(d) It is dark.

5. In what country does THE BIG WAVE take place?
(a) Thailand.
(b) Japan.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. What food is Jiya able to eat?

2. What will become of the orphaned Jiya after the big wave?

3. Kino's father says that one day, Jiya will ___________________.

4. The way of the good Japanese is to enjoy life and ________________________.

5. Who is the most excited that Jiya will be joining the family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experience does Kino have with diving that lets him know why Jiya feels the way he does about the sea?

2. How does Kino's father respond when Kino thinks it is cruel for the sky and sea to be calm again?

3. How accurate was Kino's father in describing the stages that Jiya will go through in his healing?

4. What does Kino's father say about how Jiya will recover one day and how he will carry his deceased family members with him?

5. How does Kino's father divert Kino's thoughts from the destruction of the big wave?

6. Why does Kino find it difficult to think of the sea as an enemy?

7. Why does Kino's father say they must wait for Jiya?

8. Where does Kino live?

9. How does Kino understand that Jiya's father is even afraid of the sea?

10. Why does Kino sometimes wish his father were a fisherman and other days glad that his father is a farmer?

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