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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. What does Izzy say is a best friend's "sacred duty" (3)?
(a) To "point out when you are being a jerk."
(b) To "convince you to do the things you should not do."
(c) To "know how to bring you back from the brink of crazy."
(d) To "love the good and the bad things about you."

4. What does Mr. Fuchigami caution Izzy about when she asks about the seating arrangements for the family dinner?
(a) She must find a way to impress on her family members how grateful she is to her father.
(b) She must not show favoritism toward any one person or part of the family.
(c) She must be very careful about what she says about the emperor and empress.
(d) She must remember to converse only with female members of the family.

5. In Chapter 10, what does Izzy finally get a chance to talk with her father about?
(a) Her future in Japan.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her fears about being a princess.
(d) Her dislike for Akio.

6. What hobby does Izzy say she is going to suggest to Mr. Fuchigami that she take up?
(a) Archery.
(b) Drag racing.
(c) Falconry.
(d) Wrestling.

7. Why does Izzy feel unwell when she wakes up in Chapter 18?
(a) She cried herself to sleep the night before.
(b) She is coming down with a cold.
(c) She drank too much at the wedding.
(d) She ate something at the wedding that disagreed with her.

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

9. When Izzy and her father are walking in the garden in Chapter 7, what does her father tell her is happening because the people of Tokyo are welcoming her?
(a) Chanting.
(b) Horns honking.
(c) Fireworks.
(d) Singing.

10. What does Izzy say feels like being "sent to the principal's office" (167)?
(a) Being summoned into her father's office.
(b) Talking with Mr Fuchigami about the wedding.
(c) Mariko insisting on waking her and dressing her.
(d) Explaining herself to Akio on the morning after the wedding.

11. What term does Hanako not like Izzy to use when referring to her father?
(a) Deadbeat dad.
(b) Baby daddy.
(c) Sperm donor.
(d) Bio dad.

12. In the car on the way back from the wedding, what prompts Akio to say "This is poor timing" (163)?
(a) He knows that the tabloids will be full of stories about Izzy tomorrow.
(b) He is about to tell Izzy that they cannot have a romantic relationship.
(c) He is about to take a leave of absence from work to tend to his mother.
(d) He knows that Izzy's father will send her away from the palace now.

13. What is banned on Japanese imperial grounds?
(a) American music.
(b) Drinking and smoking.
(c) Cellphones.
(d) Media consumption.

14. What is Izzy's first reaction when Noora says that she has found Izzy's father?
(a) She denies that it is true.
(b) She insults Noora.
(c) She makes a joke.
(d) She starts to cry.

15. Where does the nickname that Izzy has given her cousins Noriko and Akiko come from?
(a) A book and movie by Stephen King.
(b) One of the Real Housewives television shows.
(c) Downton Abbey.
(d) A song by rapper Warren G.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the exclusive school that Akiko and Noriko attend?

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

3. What is Izzy doing when Yoshi texts her in Chapter 11?

4. What does the expression "newly minted" mean (1)?

5. 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?

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