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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer: June through July, 1938.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Stephen and Matsu doing when the wave crashes into the garden?
(a) Catching fish from the fish pond.
(b) Talking by the bridge.
(c) Arguing about Sachi.
(d) Discussing Stephen's father.

2. What does Matsu say Kenzo does?
(a) Gets food to the hungry.
(b) Gets hard to find items.
(c) Delivers important supplies.
(d) Assists villagers with disputes.

3. Who says, "You really are a monster"?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Kenzo.
(c) Sachi.
(d) Matsu.

4. How does Matsu react when he and Stephen walk by Kenzo's teahouse for the first time after Kenzo's death?
(a) He quickens his pace.
(b) He stops in front of it and stands silently.
(c) He starts talking about Tomoko.
(d) He stares straight ahead without looking at it.

5. What is said about the shantytowns by Pie in her letter?
(a) They are filled with cardboard houses and people who are sick.
(b) They are the last refuge of the desparate.
(c) The are a blight on the landscape of a once proud nation.
(d) They are sorely in need of money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Plum Rains?

2. What do Stephen and his father seek to discuss on the June, 1938 visit?

3. Where has Matsu been when he returns to the beach house?

4. Why did Kenzo stay in Tarumi?

5. What important event occurs at the beginning of Stephen's November journal that leaves him feeling lost?

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