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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening when Jiro gets to the theater?
(a) There is a small fire.
(b) Officials are trying to make Yoshida pay more taxes.
(c) The sets are being changed.
(d) A performance is in progress.

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

3. Who is Fusamu?
(a) A Shogun's wife character in the play.
(b) Kinshi's aunt.
(c) Okada's wife.
(d) A courtesan.

4. Where does Jiro go after talking with Taro?
(a) To his cousin's farm.
(b) To the capitol.
(c) To the Hanaza.
(d) To the big city.

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

6. What list does Yoshida post?
(a) The names of the expected attendees of the opening night of the new play.
(b) The rotation of cleaning and scrubbing duties.
(c) A list of new words in the play.
(d) The boys' roles in the new play.

7. Who is Okada?
(a) The cook.
(b) The stable hand.
(c) The master chanter.
(d) The master painter.

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

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

10. Where are Hanji and Isako?
(a) The big city.
(b) Jiro's cousin's farm.
(c) Jiro does not find out.
(d) Jiro's grandfather's place in the capitol.

11. What does Kinshi admire?
(a) Jiro leaving home voluntarily.
(b) His father's performance.
(c) Jiro's dexterity.
(d) One young girl in the audience.

12. What does Jiro say to Yoshida?
(a) That Jiro can make puppets.
(b) That Jiro will work very hard.
(c) That Kenshi is a wonderful son.
(d) That Jiro is the new apprentice.

13. Why does Fusamu go into fits of shrieking?
(a) A bandit accidentally kills her cat.
(b) Her dog is killed by one of the soldiers.
(c) To pretend her mother has died.
(d) Her brother is killed by one of the bandits.

14. Who wrote the play, "The Thief of the Tokaido"?
(a) Kinshi.
(b) Yoshida.
(c) Saburo.
(d) Okada.

15. Who is Saburo?
(a) The mayor of the village.
(b) The medicine man of the village.
(c) A blacksmith.
(d) A notorious bandit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Teiji's problem?

2. For what are the boys preparing?

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

4. What does Okada tell Jiro to claim?

5. How many ryo are placed as a reward on Saburo's head?

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