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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the situation in this country during this time?
(a) A religious upheaval.
(b) A civil war.
(c) A famine.
(d) A drought.

4. Who does Joman disguise himself as?
(a) Saburo.
(b) Fusamu's old mother.
(c) The Shogun for whom he works.
(d) Joman's grandfather.

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

6. What is wrong with Hanji?
(a) He has bad lungs.
(b) He had a stroke.
(c) He broke his hip.
(d) He had a heart attack.

7. To whom does Jiro apprentice himself?
(a) A blacksmith,.
(b) A potter.
(c) A puppeteer.
(d) A painter.

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

9. Who is Hanji?
(a) Jiro's father.
(b) Jiro's sister.
(c) Jiro's brother.
(d) Jiro's grandmother.

10. What do Saburo and his band rob one evening?
(a) A rice brokerage.
(b) A bank.
(c) A samurai's home.
(d) A pig farm.

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

12. Who does the character Joman resemble?
(a) Saburo.
(b) Okada.
(c) The Shogun.
(d) Yoshida.

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

14. Who saves Jiro from a ronin?
(a) Kenshi.
(b) Hanji.
(c) Yoshida.
(d) Jiro saves himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kinshi say the left-hand operators will do?

2. What happens to the snipe?

3. For what is Yoshida disciplining one of the boys?

4. Who comes to the theater the next morning?

5. What happens to Jiro's mother when she goes to the shrine to get food?

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