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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Richard Hannay novel does the author reference in this section?
(a) The Nifle Man.
(b) Thirty Nine Steps.
(c) Treasure Island.
(d) Kidnapped.

2. What is the title of Chapter 31?
(a) Kodachrome.
(b) Love.
(c) Where?
(d) Relationships.

3. Which two foreign languages can Emmy speak?
(a) Dutch and Ukraine.
(b) French and English.
(c) Hungarian and Russian.
(d) Chinese and Japanese.

4. What did the Japanese call the make-up clad girls who used to go with American soldiers?
(a) Go Go girls.
(b) Pan Pan girls.
(c) Wild Things.
(d) Lo Lo girls.

5. What is the only color Evelina wears?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

6. What did Charles leave Emmy in his will?
(a) His book collection.
(b) A diamond ring.
(c) A Rimbaud painting.
(d) A gold necklace.

7. What did Jiro's grandfather make his fortune from?
(a) Geta.
(b) Brita.
(c) Netsuke.
(d) Paintings.

8. What did Tomokazu excel in making?
(a) Netsuke animal figures.
(b) Clay pots.
(c) Origami figures.
(d) Book covers.

9. Why kind of parties did Iggy find very boring?
(a) Family parties.
(b) Go Go parties.
(c) Geisha parties.
(d) Peep Show parties.

10. What did Iggy visit for the first time in October 1947?
(a) His grandchildren.
(b) His father's grave.
(c) The house in Tunbridge Wells.
(d) His mother's grave.

11. What did many Japanese men have to wear after the war?
(a) Their army uniforms.
(b) Their gowns.
(c) Their kimonos.
(d) Their swimming costumes.

12. What does the author call a vision of heaven at the end of Chapter 15?
(a) A portrait of his family laughing around a fire.
(b) Nine Jewish women parading down Ringstrasse.
(c) His wife and children walking towards him.
(d) Eight white suits hanging on a rail.

13. What is the name of the Austrian national anthem?
(a) Schon Tag.
(b) Menshen, Menschen.
(c) Gott Liebe Dich.
(d) Gott Erhalte.

14. What does the author call the woman cleaning the steps at the Sushi restaurant?
(a) Mrs. Yukami.
(b) Mrs. X.
(c) Mrs. Y.
(d) Miss. Peabody.

15. Which of the following phrases were printed in the Japanese-English Conversation Manual?
(a) Give my love to the queen.
(b) Thank you, awfully.
(c) Blimely, where are we?
(d) Looky here.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Germany declare war on on the 1st of August?

2. Who occupied Japan after the Second World War?

3. What two places does the author say Emmy knows how to live in?

4. Who had bombed Tokyo for three years?

5. What was the name of the Japanese religion implicated in the rise of nationalism?

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