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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 does Yashida order Jiro to do?
(a) Go home and check on his mother.
(b) Practice to be the foot operator for Akoya's part.
(c) Leave and not come back.
(d) Go find Kanshi.

2. What does a fishmonger arrive to tell those at the theater?
(a) About the Emperor's response to the play.
(b) About the assistant magistrate losing his position.
(c) About the assistant magistrate losing his head.
(d) About Saburo's latest theft.

3. What is Jiro shocked when the play opens that night?
(a) His father is there.
(b) There are few people in attendance.
(c) His mother is there with his father.
(d) His brother is there.

4. Who comes to take Jiro to Okada?
(a) No one.
(b) Kinshi.
(c) Wada.
(d) Tozo.

5. What does Jiro realize about the puppeteer?
(a) It is Yoshida.
(b) It is Toza.
(c) It is Okada.
(d) It is Hanji.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the play doing as Spring rolls around?

2. What does the Samurai tell Yoshida?

3. What does Okada admit to Jiro?

4. What is happening in the city when Jiro goes there after the performance?

5. What does Yoshida tell the boys to get?

Short Essay Questions

1. What wakes Jiro in the night and what is the outcome?

2. What does Jiro think about concerning arranging a meeting with Saburo?

3. What does Jiro find when he goes into the storeroom and what happens as he trying to decide what to do?

4. How does Kinshi get out of his chores and what do the other boys do?

5. What is the story that the puppeteer tells Jiro?

6. How does Jiro manage to get Kinshi his role back in the play?

7. What part is Kinshi assigned in the new play and what does Jiro learn as they go to get puppets for Kinshi to practice?

8. How does Joman avoid being executed?

9. What does Yoshida ask Jiro and then tell Jiro to do?

10. What happens in the theater when the play is over and how does the assistant magistrate react?

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