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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 Jiro try to figure out?
(a) How to find his father.
(b) How to arrange a meeting with Saburo for Kinshi.
(c) How to keep Kinshi safe.
(d) How to keep his mother safe.

2. What does the girl who is being courted by a high-born suitor do?
(a) Looks through his pockets.
(b) Sticks a needle into his clothes.
(c) Puts dye on his shoes.
(d) Says she will die if he does not say where he lives.

3. Where is the crest Jiro sees?
(a) On a dagger that is on the river bank.
(b) On the cape.
(c) On a sword.
(d) Stamped on the barrel of rice.

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

5. How does Yoshida praise the assistant magistrate?
(a) Yoshida does not respond at all to the assistant magistrate.
(b) Saying assistant magistrate is very noble.
(c) Saying assistant magistrate is very wise.
(d) Saying assistant magistrate is very wily.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is shouting for Yoshida at the gate?

2. What does the man make the puppet do?

3. What does Jiro realize about the puppeteer?

4. How do the boys treat Jiro?

5. What does Jiro find where he is preparing to practice?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joman avoid being executed?

2. What does Jiro beg Kinshi to do and what is Kinshi's reply?

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

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

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

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

7. How does Jiro discover a Samurai sword?

8. What does Kinshi say to Jiro the next morning?

9. How does Jiro arrange the meeting with Okada?

10. What does Hanji tell Jiro and offer to do, and what is Jiro's response?

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