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

2. Who is Taro?
(a) Jiro's neighbor.
(b) Jiro's cousin.
(c) The mean grain merchant.
(d) Another puppet apprentice.

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

4. 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.

5. What does Jiro do that is rude?
(a) Does not allow his mother to speak.
(b) Refuses to shake Yoshida's hand.
(c) Interrupts his father.
(d) Does not remove his sandals in Yoshida's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won't Kinshi allow Jiro to come with him at night?

2. What does Jiro admire about the boy who is disciplined?

3. What does the visitor to the theater bring?

4. How do the boys feel about Kinshi?

5. Why does Fusamu go into fits of shrieking?

(see the answer key)

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