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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 fell asleep at practice the day before.
(b) Where Kanshi is.
(c) Why Kanshi seems always tired.
(d) If Kanshi is ill.

2. To whom does Jiro think it would be best to talk?
(a) His mother.
(b) Mochida.
(c) Okada.
(d) Tozo.

3. What happens after the play is done?
(a) The soldiers start clubbing people.
(b) The lights go out and a voice makes a statement.
(c) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(d) The people stand and chant Saburo's name.

4. What does the girl who is being courted by a high-born suitor do?
(a) Sticks a needle into his clothes.
(b) Looks through his pockets.
(c) Says she will die if he does not say where he lives.
(d) Puts dye on his shoes.

5. Where does Kinshi say it is forbidden to go?
(a) In the cellar.
(b) In the stable's loft.
(c) In the attic.
(d) In the upstairs storehouse.

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

7. How is the play doing as Spring rolls around?
(a) It is poorly attended.
(b) It is still successful.
(c) It has been banned by the Shogun.
(d) It is about to be retired.

8. Who is at the door one night when Jiro and Kinshi hear a banging sound?
(a) Yoshida.
(b) No one.
(c) Hanji.
(d) Ikairu.

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

10. What does Jiro say when he asks to speak to Okada?
(a) He will have to leave the theater if he cannot speak with Okada.
(b) Jiro does not elaborate.
(c) It is a matter of life and death.
(d) It must happen that day.

11. What is happening in the city when Jiro goes there after the performance?
(a) Hundreds of people are standing silently outside the Shogun's residence.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Absolute silence.
(d) Rioting.

12. 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 harm his parents.
(d) It would be a betrayal.

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

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

15. Who does Okada tell Tozo to send for?
(a) Jiro's mother.
(b) Yoshida.
(c) Kenshi.
(d) Hanji.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the boys decide to give Kinshi his role back?

2. What does Mochida explain to Jiro?

3. What does Yoshida tell the boys to get?

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

5. What awakens Jiro in the middle of the night?

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