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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Winter: December 5 through December 25, 1937.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Stephen's first impression of the person who meets him at the station?
(a) That he yearns for company.
(b) That he is an angry man.
(c) That he has a secret.
(d) That he enjoys solitude.

2. Why does Sachi say Tomoko contracted leprosy?
(a) She ate poorly.
(b) Their family was poor.
(c) The girls were vain.
(d) The girls spent too much time indoors.

3. Where does Stephen's father spend most of his time?
(a) Japan.
(b) Beach house in Tarumi.
(c) Canton.
(d) China.

4. What is Stephen's interpretation of his parents' marriage at the end of the December journal entries?
(a) That it is over.
(b) That it is healing.
(c) That it is no more than a business arrangement.
(d) That it is at a painful point in a growth process.

5. Why does Miko have to do the laundry?
(a) She traded chores with Keiko.
(b) She offered to do it so Keiko could meet Stephen.
(c) She lost a bet with Keiko.
(d) She is being punished.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stephen feel about his father leaving Tamuri in October of 1937?

2. Who accompanies Stephen home from Canton?

3. What, according to Sachi, is true about Sachi and Tomoko as children?

4. Where does Stephen see the "nicest Christmas tree I ever had"?

5. How does Stephen describe the houses in the village of Yamaguchi?

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