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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 promise does Keiko make to Stephen when he walks her halfway home in March?
(a) That her father will hurt her if they speak again.
(b) That she'll return.
(c) That she will meet him by the beach.
(d) That this is the last time she will speak to him.

2. Stephen says he feels like his new life has ended. What does he say he has returned to?
(a) The oppressive heat of a Chinese summer.
(b) The time of sickness, sleeping late and doing little.
(c) The solitude of the sick.
(d) The lonliness of an unwelcome visitor.

3. What does Stephen's father tell him his parents agree on when he visits in June of 1938?
(a) Stephen should stay in Tarumi through the summer.
(b) Stephen should return to Hong Kong.
(c) Pie should come to Tarumi.
(d) That their marriage is over.

4. What is the mood surrounding Stephen's visit to the Tama shrine?
(a) Frustrating.
(b) Intimate.
(c) Celebratory.
(d) Sad.

5. How does Keiko say her father has brought shame to the family?
(a) By being rude.
(b) By letting her brother fight in an unjust war.
(c) By requiring her to speak to Stephen on the family's behalf.
(d) By alllowing Stephen to provoke him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Miko have to do the laundry?

2. What best describes Kenzo and Matsu in their youth?

3. Who dies in the Summer: June through July, 1938 chapter?

4. Where does Stephen meet Kenzo?

5. What does Stephen's mother ask him to do?

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