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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Jiro feeling?
(a) Sad.
(b) Hungry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Rebellious.

3. How does Jiro's family make money?
(a) Selling eggs.
(b) Selling puppets.
(c) Making calligraphy invitations.
(d) Spinning wool.

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

5. What does Kinshi steal to celebrate?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Cheese.
(c) Some fireworks.
(d) Wine.

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

7. What does Jiro decide to do?
(a) Apprentice himself to the blacksmith.
(b) Go offer himself as an apprentice to Yoshidaq.
(c) Work a small plot of land near the forest.
(d) Go to the big city to find work.

8. With whom does Yoshida find fault when he watches the boys' practice?
(a) Minoru.
(b) Wada.
(c) Jiro.
(d) Kinshi.

9. What does Jiro do to prepare for his part in the new production?
(a) Runs several miles every day.
(b) Wraps his foot tightly to help the pain.
(c) Practices constantly.
(d) Does acrobatic stunts.

10. What does Kinshi say he did the last time there was a new play?
(a) Suggested some new puppets for it.
(b) Changed some of the lines.
(c) Stole Yoshida's personal copy.
(d) Memorized all the lines.

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

12. Where does Jiro sleep?
(a) In with Okada.
(b) In the barn.
(c) He goes home every day to sleep.
(d) In the dressing room.

13. What is one reason Jiro has decided to do what he does?
(a) There will be one less mouth to feed at home.
(b) His mother has been hounding him too much.
(c) He can learn blacksmithing and then set up a shop.
(d) His father is very ill.

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

15. What is the Hanaza?
(a) The puppet theater.
(b) The outdoor craft fair.
(c) The community dining hall.
(d) The outdoor meeting place.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Wada described?

2. What does Jiro hope about his father?

3. What is Jiro helping his father do?

4. About what has Yoshida just sent word?

5. What happens to the snipe?

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