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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, 'A Matter of Life and Death'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jiro tell Okada?
(a) About his father's disappearance.
(b) About Kinshi's night activities.
(c) About Kinshi's hopes.
(d) About his mother being beaten.

2. For what are the boys preparing?
(a) Okada's birthday.
(b) Yoshida's birthday.
(c) The Emperor's birthday.
(d) The New Year.

3. What does Kinshi say to Jiro about the available food at the theater?
(a) He does not know where they get the food.
(b) He thinks they should distribute the food to the poor.
(c) It is wrong for them to have so much.
(d) He thinks the food is stolen.

4. About what has Yoshida just sent word?
(a) He needs several new puppets.
(b) He does not need the new puppet Hanji is making.
(c) He needs a whole set of children puppets.
(d) He needs a special Empress puppet.

5. How does Jiro feel about himself in regards to his family?
(a) That he is just a nuisance.
(b) That they resent him being alive.
(c) That he should help his family more.
(d) That they believe in him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kwada's job in the theater?

2. Where does Jiro decide to practice his part?

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

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

5. How do the bandits get the stolen goods away?

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