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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jiro helping his father do?
(a) Make a new puppet.
(b) Shear sheep.
(c) Gather eggs.
(d) Sow rice seeds.

2. Who has fallen in love with Joman?
(a) Kinshi's aunt.
(b) No one.
(c) Hanji's sister.
(d) Fusamu.

3. What does Kinshi admire?
(a) His father's performance.
(b) One young girl in the audience.
(c) Jiro's dexterity.
(d) Jiro leaving home voluntarily.

4. What does Jiro find when he is stealing the text of the next play?
(a) A basket hat.
(b) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(c) A letter from Yoshida to Saburo.
(d) A letter from Hanji to Yoshida.

5. How do the bandits get the stolen goods away?
(a) Under their robes.
(b) Inside hollowed out books.
(c) In baskets on top of their heads.
(d) Through the garbage bin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jiro go after talking with Taro?

2. Who offers the reward for Saburo's capture?

3. What does Yoshida tell Kinshi to do?

4. What happens to the snipe?

5. What is the state of Jiro's family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Jiro and Kinshi think of Yoshida's performance?

2. What does Jiro decide to do and why does he make this decision?

3. What happens when Jiro goes home to see his mother?

4. Who are the other apprentices?

5. How does Jiro help his father and how does this help his family?

6. Where do Jiro and his father go and spend their money, and who do they talk to there?

7. How is Jiro's family getting along?

8. How do Jiro and the other boys feel about Jiro's assignment?

9. How does Okada respond to Jiro's question?

10. What is the basic plot of the play?

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