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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mariko remind Izzy to pack?
(a) Her ink and paper for practicing calligraphy.
(b) The genealogy information on her mother's family.
(c) Her collection of notes from Akio.
(d) The pearls that were a gift from the empress.

2. What realization about his life has the Crown Prince come to during Izzy's time in Japan?
(a) He needs to learn more about how to parent a teenager.
(b) He does not really want to be the emperor of Japan someday.
(c) He misses the person he was when he was with her mother.
(d) He wants to advocate for changing some imperial restrictions and traditions.

3. What does Izzy watch while she is holed up in her room after returning to California from Japan?
(a) Documentaries.
(b) Horror movies.
(c) Romance movies.
(d) Reality shows.

4. How does Izzy feel at the beginning of Chapter 35, when her father is about to leave?
(a) She feels like it will be lonely with just her and her mother.
(b) She is secretly pleased that she will get to spend some time alone with her mother.
(c) She feels defeated, as if she has wasted an important opportunity.
(d) She is relieved that her father's pressuring her to return to Japan is over with.

5. When Noora comes to see Izzy, what does she repeatedly tease her about?
(a) The tabloid stories.
(b) Jones's crush on Hanako.
(c) Izzy's new life as a vampire.
(d) The bad smells in Izzy's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, what job does Akio reveal is his dream job?

2. Where does Shirasu say the best bamboo can be found?

3. What gift does Izzy bring her father from Kyoto?

4. Why is the interview with Women Now "unprecedented" (300)?

5. How will Izzy get to the airport to fly home?

Short Essay Questions

1. When they talk in the bamboo forest, what joking reason does Izzy give Akio for a romantic relationship between them being a bad idea, and what serious reason does he respond with?

2. How does Izzy's first month in Japan mimic the growth of the bamboo on the imperial farm?

3. What does Yoshi tell Izzy is the difference between Sachiko's relationship with her fiance and Izzy's relationship with Akio?

4. Describe the public response to Izzy's magazine interview.

5. What are "gimu" and "ninjō"?

6. What is on the paper that Akio gives Izzy in the train in Chapter 23, and what message is he trying to convey?

7. How do her friends demonstrate their friendship for and understanding of Izzy when they come with Hanako to fetch Izzy from the airport?

8. How does Mariko help Izzy get in touch with Akio in Chapter 27?

9. What is the usual protocol for greeting the public on the emperor's birthday, and what actually ends up happening instead?

10. When they are at dinner in Chapter 21, why does Yoshi tell Izzy that she has changed?

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