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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Noora show Izzy to prove her claim about Makoto's title?
(a) A birth certificate.
(b) A coronation photograph.
(c) A family tree.
(d) A newspaper article.

2. What do Izzy and her father have for lunch in Chapter 10?
(a) Tempura vegetables.
(b) Ayu fish.
(c) Raw eel.
(d) A soup with caviar in it.

3. What distracts Izzy from posing properly for the photographers at the sericulture session?
(a) She feels like she is about to sneeze.
(b) One of her new shoes is pinching her foot.,
(c) A silkworm starts crawling up her arm.
(d) Mariko is scowling at her.

4. As Mariko dresses Izzy and washes her face in Chapter 18, to what does Izzy compare herself?
(a) A pet.
(b) A corpse.
(c) A baby.
(d) A doll.

5. What is one of the things that Akio tells Izzy he likes about her?
(a) The way she hums when she eats.
(b) The way she talks about home.
(c) Her independence.
(d) Her stubbornness.

6. What does Akio tell Izzy commoners were once expected to do when princes and princesses rode past?
(a) Prostrate themselves on the ground.
(b) Stay inside their houses.
(c) Bow.
(d) Avert their eyes.

7. Who does Izzy think is "stuffy but kind of hot" when she first sees him? (46)
(a) Akio Kobayashi.
(b) Prince Yoshihito.
(c) Prime Minister Adachi.
(d) Mr. Fuchigami.

8. What is the name of the exclusive school that Akiko and Noriko attend?
(a) Takachiho.
(b) Kokushihan.
(c) Gakushūin.
(d) Musashino.

9. What is Izzy practicing with Mariko at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Table etiquette.
(b) The names and titles of extended family.
(c) Bowing.
(d) Polite terms of address.

10. Who is Reina?
(a) The prime minister's new wife.
(b) Yoshi's imperial guard.
(c) One of Noriko and Akiko's friends.
(d) The prime minister's sister.

11. What shape does the chef at the airport carve a radish into for Izzy?
(a) A butterfly.
(b) A fish.
(c) A flower.
(d) A bird.

12. What is Izzy's companion and tutor named?
(a) Mariko.
(b) Yoshihito.
(c) Hanako.
(d) Asako.

13. From context, what kind of restaurant is an izakaya?
(a) A formal and exclusive restaurant focused on fine dining.
(b) A tourist restaurant with chefs who cook at the diner's tables.
(c) A casual restaurant focused on drinking and small plates.
(d) A restaurant that specializes in noodle dishes.

14. What does Izzy spend most of her flight to Tokyo doing?
(a) Sleeping and playing games on her phone.
(b) Watching a television show.
(c) Listening to Japanese language tapes.
(d) Studying information about the royal family.

15. In Chapter 4, what does Hanako warn Izzy not to do?
(a) Tell her friends about her father.
(b) Get out of the car.
(c) Come home late again.
(d) Send her father another email.

Short Answer Questions

1. What startling information does Noora reveal about Makoto?

2. What does Mr. Fuchigami give Izzy when she gets into the car at the airport?

3. What is the topic of the book in which Noora finds the note to Hanako?

4. What does Izzy see numerous examples of in Akio's former bedroom?

5. What does the man who accosts Izzy in the alley want?

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