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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Stephen say about the celebration of the rebuilt houses in Yamaguchi?
(a) It was bittersweet.
(b) It was the best in his life.
(c) He doesn't understand the symbolism.
(d) He doesn't understand the people's exuberance.

4. What is part of the reason that Stephen says that time has slowed to a crawl?
(a) Kenzo's death has affected Stephen.
(b) He doesn't see much of Sachi and Keiko.
(c) Kenzo's death has affected Matsu.
(d) News of the war has taken a toll on everyone.

5. What does Stephen say about returning to Hong Kong in his July, 1938 letters to his sister and mother?
(a) He no longer mentions the possibility.
(b) He says he will return only after the war ends.
(c) He says he wants to stay in Tarumi.
(d) He asks if he is needed.

6. How old was Sachi when she became engaged to Kenzo?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Her age is not mentioned.

7. What dampens Stephen's enjoyment on the walk to Yamaguchi?
(a) The dismal weather.
(b) His fear that he may return to Hong Kong.
(c) Keiko's father's feelings towards him.
(d) Thoughts of his parents' marriage.

8. What effect does Matsu say Tomoko's illness had on their relationship?
(a) It allowed them to speak of things they had not spoken of.
(b) It became strained.
(c) They grew closer.
(d) They grew more distant.

9. What does Sachi say was Kenzo's reaction when Sachi first told him she had leprosy?
(a) He walked away and never returned.
(b) He wept openly.
(c) He promised to care for her.
(d) He raged at God.

10. What are Stephen's feelings surrounding Penelope's war efforts?
(a) He resents that she spends her life in this way.
(b) He understands her need to help.
(c) He feels guilty that she is there while he is in Japan.
(d) He commends her bravery.

11. What does Sachi show Stephen in her garden the day after the fire?
(a) A pale yellow bird in its nest.
(b) A new rock formation.
(c) A speckled fish in the pond.
(d) A blue-purple flower.

12. Who does Stephen refer to when he notes that they will never "drift away from each other"?
(a) Stephen and Pie.
(b) Matsu and Sachi.
(c) Matsu and Stephen.
(d) Stephen and Keiko.

13. What is Matsu's response to what Stephen tells him about Keiko as the two men work in the garden?
(a) That one should never give up on love.
(b) He says that Stephen will forget her in time.
(c) Things that are meant to be will be.
(d) It doesn't mean that she wasn't important in his life.

14. What does Stephen note about the garden when he and Matsu return from Yamaguchi?
(a) It remains unchanged.
(b) There is new growth everywhere.
(c) A new reddish rock has been added.
(d) It is changed.

15. How does Keiko say her father has brought shame to the family?
(a) By alllowing Stephen to provoke him.
(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 being rude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Keiko do when Stephen asks her to meet him at the shrine?

2. What does Sachi say Matsu told her when he discovered she ran away rather than take her own life?

3. What does Sachi say Tanka should not have saved after the fire destroys Tanka's home?

4. When does Stephen see the fishing knife that belonged to Matsu's and Tomoko's father?

5. What does the letter Stephen receives indicate his mother thinks about his staying in Japan?

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