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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, 'Okada's New Play'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Kinshi?
(a) The boy Jiro saw being disciplined.
(b) The son of Saburo.
(c) The blacksmith's son.
(d) A beggar boy Jiro meets at the blacksmith's stable.

2. What happens to Jiro's mother when she goes to the shrine to get food?
(a) She is attacked on the way home.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She is killed.
(d) She is given work in the Shogun's house.

3. What does Yoshido say about Jiro?
(a) Yoshido says Jiro is impudent.
(b) Yoshido says Jiro is skilled for his age.
(c) Yoshido says Jiro has clumsey hands.
(d) Yoshido says Jiro has spirit.

4. What does Jiro find when he is stealing the text of the next play?
(a) A letter from Yoshida to Saburo.
(b) A basket hat.
(c) A letter from Hanji to Yoshida.
(d) Nothing out of the ordinary.

5. What tells Yoshida tell Jiro to do?
(a) To sit in the corner quietly until after the performance.
(b) To go home.
(c) To watch the play once to understand the plot.
(d) Get ready for the performance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is to control the snipe?

2. Who is Saburo?

3. About whom do Jiro and Hanji talk with another man?

4. How does Jiro's family make money?

5. Who does Joman disguise himself as?

(see the answer key)

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