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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, 'Anxieties'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state of Jiro's family?
(a) Hungry.
(b) They have to move.
(c) They have to send in more tax money.
(d) Comfortable.

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

3. Who is Yoshida?
(a) The master puppeteer.
(b) A master potter.
(c) Jiro's brother.
(d) Jiro's uncle.

4. What does Jiro want his mother to do when he sees her in the audience?
(a) Nothing.
(b) See his part in the play.
(c) Leave.
(d) Come backstage after the performance.

5. What does Yoshida tell Kinshi to do?
(a) Operate the feet for the rest of the show.
(b) Show Jiro how to run the turn mill.
(c) Repair several puppets.
(d) Apply for a different apprenticeship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jiro shocked when the play opens that night?

2. To whom does Jiro apprentice himself?

3. Who is Saburo?

4. What does Kinshi say he did the last time there was a new play?

5. Why is the merchant supposedly arrested?

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