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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 the visitor to the theater bring?
(a) Money.
(b) A note from Jiro's grandfather.
(c) A letter of demands.
(d) Jiro's sleeping quilts.

2. Who is to control the snipe?
(a) Kinshi.
(b) Minoru.
(c) Wada.
(d) Kwada.

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

4. What does Jiro keep doing?
(a) Making mistakes.
(b) Making up songs in his mind.
(c) Swatting at a bee.
(d) Coughing.

5. What is said about Yoshida?
(a) He is sending his son to work for the Shogun.
(b) He is sick.
(c) He has an audience with the Shogun.
(d) He is retiring and handing over the theater to Okada.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Taro?

2. To whom does Jiro apprentice himself?

3. For what is Yoshida disciplining one of the boys?

4. How do the boys feel about Kinshi?

5. What will Jiro be able to do someday if he is employed properly?

(see the answer key)

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