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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 the situation in this country during this time?
(a) A famine.
(b) A religious upheaval.
(c) A drought.
(d) A civil war.

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

3. Why does Jiro worry about Hanji?
(a) Jiro talks to his younger brother.
(b) Jiro heard someone say Hanji was missing.
(c) Jiro did not come to watch Jiro's performance.
(d) Jiro heard someone say Hanji was dying.

4. What does the visitor to the theater bring?
(a) Jiro's sleeping quilts.
(b) A note from Jiro's grandfather.
(c) A letter of demands.
(d) Money.

5. Who is Taro?
(a) Another puppet apprentice.
(b) Jiro's neighbor.
(c) Jiro's cousin.
(d) The mean grain merchant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kinshi say he did the last time there was a new play?

2. Who is Fusamu?

3. In what country does Jiro live?

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

5. Who saves Jiro from a ronin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jiro offer to about the new play and what is the outcome?

3. How do some of the attendees feel about the resemblance of Joman to Saburo?

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

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

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

7. What does Isako bring to the theater and what does she tell Jiro?

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

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

10. Who does Jiro find at the house when he gets home and what does Jiro learn from him?

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