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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 will Kino's family do while Jiya is sad?
(a) Give Jiya more sweet treats.
(b) Continue to live as they always have.
(c) Let Jiya stay in bed as long as he wants to.
(d) Chastise Jiya for his behavior.

2. What will Kino's family do while Jiya returns to life again?
(a) Read stories to him.
(b) Leave him alone for awhile.
(c) Wait.
(d) Urge him to talk.

3. Who is the first to speak to Jiya when he awakens?
(a) Setsu.
(b) Kino.
(c) Kino's mother.
(d) Kino's father.

4. 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 almost touch clouds.
(c) Sometimes it snows there.
(d) He can see the sea below.

5. Jiya tries not to think of ____________________.
(a) Old Gentleman.
(b) The volcano.
(c) His family.
(d) School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kino's father sells rice and __________________ at the fishing village.

2. Kino thinks it is __________________ for the sun to shine and the sea to be calm again.

3. Jiya will one day be able to live with the fact of his family members being dead by _______________________.

4. What is Jiya's father's profession?

5. What food is Jiya able to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Kino live?

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

3. Who is the Old Gentleman and where does he live?

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

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

6. What does Kino's father remind him about that shows that the land, as well as the sea, is also fearsome?

7. What is Kino's father's response when Kino says he doesn't think that Jiya can ever be happy again?

8. What does Jiya do when he sees the devastation of the big wave?

9. How does Jiya show that he is still in shock during the meal?

10. What had Kino's father told him about the necessity for Jiya to eat in order to heal?

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