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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 82 - 108 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of the ways Kazu recalls getting food when he was homeless?
(a) His family would bring him care packages every month.
(b) Restaurants would leave food out and missionaries would serve them a few days a week.
(c) Kazu would raid trash cans outside of restaurants for food.
(d) Kazu and others would steal from markets.

2. Who left a message for Kazu to tell him his son died while he was working in Hokkaido?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) The police.
(d) His wife.

3. What is familiar about the jean jacket Kazu sees an old homeless man wearing while talking to a homeless woman about the lack of work?
(a) He had seen it in a magazine.
(b) It belonged to Kazu's son.
(c) It looks like Shige's.
(d) It used to be Kazu's.

4. What did Kazu notice as he stared at his son's face after he died?
(a) He noticed his son looked like him.
(b) He noticed how much is son looked like his father.
(c) He noticed how handsome his son was.
(d) He noticed how much his son resembled Setsuko.

5. What was Koichi's body covered with after the funeral service?
(a) White roses.
(b) White chrysanthemum.
(c) White trillium.
(d) White lilies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Buddhist name given to Koichi at his funeral?

2. After working in Onamaha for two years, What did Kazu do with his father on Kitamigita Beach?

3. What did Kazu find interesting about the calendar hung up in Shige's hut?

4. When was the only time bill collectors did not come to Kazu's when his children were young?

5. How old was Kazu when he went to Tokyo to find work?

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