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

2. What is the state of Jiro's family?
(a) Comfortable.
(b) They have to send in more tax money.
(c) Hungry.
(d) They have to move.

3. 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.

4. How does Jiro do in his part of the play?
(a) He only misses his footing twice.
(b) He got all tangled up in the ropes.
(c) He does very well.
(d) He trips and falls off the stage.

5. What do Saburo and his band rob one evening?
(a) A bank.
(b) A pig farm.
(c) A samurai's home.
(d) A rice brokerage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who calls him selfish say will be the result of Jiro joining the theater?

2. Who is Hanji?

3. What does Jiro find when he is stealing the text of the next play?

4. Who is Mochida?

5. What does Jiro decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Shogun do about Saburo?

2. What does Jiro admire about one of Yoshida's apprentices?

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

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

5. Why is Jiro almost attacked and who saves him?

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

7. Who are the other apprentices?

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

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

10. What is the basic plot of the play?

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