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

2. What does Yoshida tell the boys to get?
(a) Some sleep.
(b) Some newly-made fish balls.
(c) Mallets.
(d) Some rice.

3. What awakens Jiro in the middle of the night?
(a) The sounds of a angry mob.
(b) Kinshi moving about.
(c) Someone sobbing.
(d) A dark barking.

4. Who is the person coming up the storeroom stairs?
(a) Yoshida.
(b) Jiro does not know.
(c) Hanji.
(d) Kenshi.

5. How do the boys decide to give Kinshi his role back?
(a) A last-minute swap.
(b) They do not see how they can do so.
(c) To appeal to Yoshida.
(d) To appeal to Okada.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Kinshi the next morning?

2. What is the bird on the crest of the Samurai who visits Yoshida?

3. What does Mochida ask Jiro the next morning?

4. Who does Jiro think is Saburto?

5. Why is Kinshi worried about his part in the next performance?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jiro discover a Samurai sword?

4. Describe the conversation between Okada and Jiro.

5. What does Okada tell Tozo after Jiro leaves Okada?

6. What happens when the boys are sewing and practicing later that night and how does Yoshida react?

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

8. What is pinned on the door of the theater and how does Yoshida respond?

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

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

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