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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mochida ask Jiro the next morning?
(a) Why Kanshi seems always tired.
(b) Why Kanshi fell asleep at practice the day before.
(c) Where Kanshi is.
(d) If Kanshi is ill.

2. What is the bird on the crest of the Samurai who visits Yoshida?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A heron.
(c) A hawk.
(d) A vulture.

3. What does Kinshi do instead of what he says he is going to do?
(a) Writes in his journal.
(b) Takes food to Jiro's mothre.
(c) Sneaks to the upstairs warehouse.
(d) Sleeps.

4. What does a fishmonger arrive to tell those at the theater?
(a) About Saburo's latest theft.
(b) About the Emperor's response to the play.
(c) About the assistant magistrate losing his head.
(d) About the assistant magistrate losing his position.

5. What does Joman's wife do after he goes to prison?
(a) Kills herself.
(b) Goes into a Buddhist convent.
(c) Marries another man.
(d) Grieves for years.

6. Who is Hanji disguised as?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A merchant.
(c) No one.
(d) A fireman.

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

8. What does Mochida say when he grabs Jiro?
(a) He is needed to play Kenshi's role.
(b) Yoshida wants to speak to him.
(c) His father is outside in the courtyard.
(d) Kenshi needs him at the river.

9. What is Jiro shocked when the play opens that night?
(a) His father is there.
(b) There are few people in attendance.
(c) His brother is there.
(d) His mother is there with his father.

10. How does Yoshida react when he hears about what is pinned to the door?
(a) He tells them to post the message in the courtyard.
(b) He tells them to ignore the message.
(c) He tells them to take the message to the Shogun.
(d) He tells them to burn the message.

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

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

13. What does Okada ask Jiro to do?
(a) Retrieve the Samurai sword.
(b) Continue as if nothing has happened.
(c) Go to an address and leave a note.
(d) Not say anything to Kenshi.

14. What does Jiro agree to do after the last performance of the day?
(a) Ask Kenshi to see Okada.
(b) Go and tell his mother to stay home that night.
(c) Retrieve the sword.
(d) Go and warn the night rovers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yoshida praise the assistant magistrate?

2. How is Yoshida after his play is shut down?

3. What does Mochida explain to Jiro?

4. What does Jiro ask Kinshi after the performance?

5. What does Jiro worry about concerning his mother?

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