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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. Why do Kino and Jiya cling to Kino's father?
(a) A hurricane wind breaks from the ocean.
(b) Lightning strikes close to the house.
(c) Gunshots are heard in the distance.
(d) The volcano has erupted.

2. What encircles the fields on the mountain?
(a) Arbors.
(b) Stone walls.
(c) Chain fences.
(d) Brick walls.

3. Even though he does not feel hungry, Jiya's body is _________________ for some food.
(a) Starved.
(b) Thankful.
(c) Elated.
(d) Glad.

4. What does Jiya do when the family sits at the table to eat?
(a) Falls asleep while awake.
(b) Falls into his plate of food.
(c) Pushes his food around his plate.
(d) Breaks out crying.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kino live?

2. What are Kino and his family doing at the beginning of Section 2?

3. Jiya tries not to think of ____________________.

4. How does Setsu feel about Jiya living with her family?

5. Jiya explains that ________________ knows why the sea gets angry.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is at the base of the mountain and why does Kino's father go there?

2. What does Kino learn from his best friend, Jiya, about why the houses in the fishing village do not have windows facing the sea?

3. What does Kino's father say about Jiya's crying and what the family will do to let him mourn?

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

5. What does Kino's father tell him about what the gods do to test men?

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

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

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

9. Summarize the story in The Big Wave.

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

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