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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapters 19-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose music does Izzy choose to play for Akio?
(a) The Mount Shasta Children's Choir.
(b) The Mount Shasta Gay Men's Chorus.
(c) The Mount Shasta Community Orchestra.
(d) The Mount Shasta High School Marching Band.

2. What is ironic about Izzy's mother's makeup collection?
(a) It is all brands of makeup that teenagers usually wear, but Izzy is not allowed to wear makeup.
(b) Izzy's mother bought the makeup to wear to a job that she quit after three days.
(c) Izzy's mother does not actually ever wear any of the makeup.
(d) It is very expensive, but Izzy's mother is usually very careful with money.

3. In one of the poems she write to Akio, what does Izzy compare her two halves to?
(a) Pancakes and dorayaki.
(b) Apple pie and mochi.
(c) Beer and sake.
(d) Coffee and tea.

4. What is Izzy doing when Yoshi texts her in Chapter 11?
(a) Practicing her Japanese.
(b) Talking to her mother on the phone.
(c) Having a glove fitting.
(d) Trying to get Akio to talk to her.

5. What example does Akio give of the conflict between gimu and ninjō?
(a) A lady-in-waiting who must serve a princess she dislikes.
(b) A princess who must modify her own personality to fit in.
(c) A soldier who is ordered to kill a member of his own family.
(d) A samurai who is in love with his shogun's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Shirasu's father die?

2. During their text conversation when Izzy is on her way back to the palace, why does Izzy not tell Yoshi about being rescued from the alley?

3. What movie does Izzy quote to Akio in the bamboo forest?

4. When Izzy and her father walk in the garden in Chapter 7, what aspect of royal life does she realize she might struggle to adjust to?

5. At the wedding, what does Yoshi complain that their uncle Tadashi will not stop talking to him about?

(see the answer key)

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