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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 does Stephen's mother recommend in her May, 1938 letter to him?
(a) That Henry and Anne should go to Tarumi.
(b) That Pie should go to Tarumi.
(c) That he should stay in Tarumi.
(d) That he should return home to China.

2. How does Stephen get to Kobe?
(a) Mule.
(b) Boat.
(c) Bicycle.
(d) Walking.

3. Who gives Stephen the black lacquer box with homemade yoken?
(a) Pie.
(b) Keiko.
(c) Miko.
(d) Sachi.

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

5. What does Stephen notice a lack of in Tarumi?
(a) Food.
(b) Young women.
(c) Children.
(d) Young men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Stephen and Matsu doing when the wave crashes into the garden?

2. Who is Keiko with when Stephen first sees her?

3. To what is Tomoko referring when she tells Matsu that she doesn't want "to live like this"?

4. What does Stephen expect to be his only solace in Tarumi?

5. What two people do Stephen and his father discuss shortly before his father's departure?

(see the answer key)

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