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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Taro doing when Jiro talks with him?
(a) Writing out a bill of sale.
(b) Looking after his parents' house.
(c) Stealing some grapes.
(d) Planting corn.

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

4. 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.

5. Why does Jiro worry about his decision?
(a) He is afraid of failure.
(b) He is of making his parents angry.
(c) He is afraid he will miss his brothers.
(d) He worries that his mother will miss him.

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

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

8. Who is to control the snipe?
(a) Wada.
(b) Kwada.
(c) Kinshi.
(d) Minoru.

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

10. Who is Mochida?
(a) The head of the blacksmith's guild.
(b) A kind man who oversees the apprentices.
(c) The head of the puppet's guild.
(d) Yoshida's tailor.

11. What does Jiro keep doing?
(a) Making up songs in his mind.
(b) Coughing.
(c) Making mistakes.
(d) Swatting at a bee.

12. Who comes to the theater the next morning?
(a) Jiro's youngest brother.
(b) Saburo.
(c) Isako.
(d) Hanji.

13. Who is jealous of Jiro?
(a) Minoru.
(b) No one.
(c) Wada.
(d) Kinshi.

14. How many ryo are placed as a reward on Saburo's head?
(a) 150,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 1000.
(d) 100.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers the reward for Saburo's capture?

2. What does Jiro hope about his father?

3. Where does Jiro visit Okada?

4. What does the visitor to the theater bring?

5. Who does Joman disguise himself as?

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