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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hanji give Jiro?
(a) A note from Okada.
(b) Some money.
(c) A bandana.
(d) His fireman's coat.

2. What do the other boys do for Kinshi?
(a) There's nothing they can do for him.
(b) Find him a better-fitting harness.
(c) Keep him awake.
(d) Cover for him.

3. How do the boys treat Jiro?
(a) Like an outsider.
(b) The same as always.
(c) Like a traitor.
(d) Like a lucky charm.

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

5. How is Kinshi the next morning?
(a) Exhausted.
(b) Happy.
(c) Very depressed.
(d) Sick.

6. What have some people started doing at night?
(a) Wandering the streets and throwing stones at wealthy men's homes.
(b) Helping Saburo's gang.
(c) Setting fire to weathly men's homes.
(d) Gathering in secret groups.

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

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

9. 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) Rioting.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Absolute silence.

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

11. Who does Jiro think is Saburto?
(a) He is not sure.
(b) Okada.
(c) Yoshida.
(d) Hanji.

12. How does Jiro respond to Yashida's questioning?
(a) Jiro says Kanshi is taking medicine to Jiro's mother.
(b) Jiro starts crying.
(c) Jiro tells the truth.
(d) Jiro feigns ignorance.

13. What does Jiro ask Kinshi after the performance?
(a) Not to go out again that night.
(b) If Kinshi is ill.
(c) To go with Jiro to see Jiro's mother.
(d) To see if Yoshida will excuse Kenshi from the play.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jiro reply to Okada's question?

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

3. How does Yoshida praise the assistant magistrate?

4. What does Jira say he will try to arrange for Kinshi?

5. What does Kinshi say to Jiro about the available food at the theater?

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