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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jiro want his mother to do when he sees her in the audience?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Leave.
(c) See his part in the play.
(d) Come backstage after the performance.

2. Why is Jiro irritable as Kinshi practices?
(a) He is worried about Hanji.
(b) He is worried that Saburo is going to attack the theater again.
(c) He is jealous of Kinshi.
(d) He is worried about his mother.

3. How do the boys decide to give Kinshi his role back?
(a) A last-minute swap.
(b) To appeal to Okada.
(c) To appeal to Yoshida.
(d) They do not see how they can do so.

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

5. What is going to be the entrance fee for a special showing of "The Thief of the Tokaido"?
(a) Two for one.
(b) Half price.
(c) Same as always.
(d) Free.

6. How does Kinshi get out of his chores?
(a) He says he needs to practice.
(b) He volunteers to go to market.
(c) He says he is sick.
(d) He volunteers to deliver an invitation from Yoshida.

7. Why does Jiro know he cannot turn in Yashida?
(a) It would leave him without a job.
(b) It would be the end of food for the poor.
(c) It would be a betrayal.
(d) It would harm his parents.

8. How does Saburo's gang rob the merchant's house?
(a) By forcing the occupants to vacate the buildings with a search warrant.
(b) They do so after putting the merchant in jail.
(c) They do not rob the merchant after he gives them some money that is on his person.
(d) They only rob the livestock.

9. What does Jiro find where he is preparing to practice?
(a) A red cape.
(b) A dagger.
(c) A barrel of rice.
(d) A Samaurai sword.

10. What does Okada admit to Jiro?
(a) There is no Saburo.
(b) Hanji is Saburo.
(c) He is Saburo.
(d) Yoshida is Saburo.

11. What does Jiro worry about concerning his mother?
(a) How to help her once she gives birth to her baby.
(b) How to help her.
(c) How to find her a new husband.
(d) Her safety alone in the house.

12. Who is the person coming up the storeroom stairs?
(a) Kenshi.
(b) Yoshida.
(c) Hanji.
(d) Jiro does not know.

13. Where does Jiro decide to practice his part?
(a) In the upstairs storeroom.
(b) In the practice room.
(c) The stable.
(d) Down by the river.

14. Who is shouting for Yoshida at the gate?
(a) No one.
(b) The police.
(c) The night rovers.
(d) Saburo's gang.

15. What is pinned to the door?
(a) A message from Saburo.
(b) A man's scarf.
(c) An arrest warrant.
(d) The Shogun's proclamation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jiro discover when he sneaks into the storehouse?

2. What does Jiro try to figure out?

3. Who is at the door one night when Jiro and Kinshi hear a banging sound?

4. What does Jiro agree to do after the last performance of the day?

5. What does Hanji give Jiro?

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