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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, 'Bad Omens for the New Year'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kinshi steal to celebrate?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Some fireworks.
(c) Wine.
(d) Cheese.

2. What has Jiro learned about his mother?
(a) She wants to see Jiro.
(b) She has had another child.
(c) She is dying.
(d) She has returned home without Hanji.

3. What does Jiro decide to do?
(a) Apprentice himself to the blacksmith.
(b) Go to the big city to find work.
(c) Go offer himself as an apprentice to Yoshidaq.
(d) Work a small plot of land near the forest.

4. How do the bandits get the stolen goods away?
(a) Inside hollowed out books.
(b) In baskets on top of their heads.
(c) Under their robes.
(d) Through the garbage bin.

5. What is Taro doing when Jiro talks with him?
(a) Planting corn.
(b) Writing out a bill of sale.
(c) Looking after his parents' house.
(d) Stealing some grapes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jira ask Okada?

2. Who wrote the play, "The Thief of the Tokaido"?

3. To whom does Jiro apprentice himself?

4. What does Yoshido say about Jiro?

5. What do Saburo and his band rob one evening?

(see the answer key)

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