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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 Mochida's response to Jiro's question?
(a) Jiro has to work longer for a recommendation.
(b) The puppet is unbalanced.
(c) There is no more work.
(d) Jiro may visit Hanji.

2. Who is Kinshi?
(a) The blacksmith's son.
(b) A beggar boy Jiro meets at the blacksmith's stable.
(c) The boy Jiro saw being disciplined.
(d) The son of Saburo.

3. Why does Fusamu go into fits of shrieking?
(a) Her brother is killed by one of the bandits.
(b) Her dog is killed by one of the soldiers.
(c) To pretend her mother has died.
(d) A bandit accidentally kills her cat.

4. What does Kinshi say he did the last time there was a new play?
(a) Suggested some new puppets for it.
(b) Memorized all the lines.
(c) Stole Yoshida's personal copy.
(d) Changed some of the lines.

5. What happens to Jiro's mother when she goes to the shrine to get food?
(a) She is attacked on the way home.
(b) Nothing.
(c) She is given work in the Shogun's house.
(d) She is killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Joman disguise himself as?

2. To whom does Kinshi introduce Jiro?

3. What is one reason Jiro has decided to do what he does?

4. What is Taro doing when Jiro talks with him?

5. What is Jiro's part in the new play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the authorities and merchant's guild offer?

2. What do Saburo and his gang do one evening?

3. What play does Okada finish and what do the apprentices worry about concerning the new play?

4. Who posts the roles for the new play and what is Jiro's role?

5. How does Kinshi perform when he takes over for Kwada one day?

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

7. Who does Jiro meet at the theater and what does the person tell Jiro?

8. What does Jiro discover when he goes to steal the script for the next play?

9. What does Kinshi steal for a celebration and what happens?

10. What does Jiro hope about his father and what is the outcome?

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