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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 131- 160.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were homeless people require to evacuate Ueno Park per the notice on November 20, 2006?
(a) The imperial family was coming.
(b) There was going to be a fair in the park.
(c) A Tsunami was heading their way.
(d) They were buildings condominiums there.

2. Why was Kazu unable to take his children on a helicopter ride in Haramachi during the Bon holidays when they were young?
(a) His wife would not allow it.
(b) Tickets were too expensive.
(c) They arrived too late.
(d) The children were too young.

3. How much money does Kazu send him to his family when he first moves to Tokyo?
(a) 20 yen a month.
(b) 20,000 yen a month.
(c) 250,000 yen a month.
(d) 1000 yen a month.

4. How old were Kazu's parents when they died?
(a) In their 60s.
(b) In their 90s.
(c) In their 70s.
(d) In their 80s.

5. How long had Kazu and his wife been married at the time Kazu stopped working in Tokyo?
(a) 37 years.
(b) 29 years.
(c) 17 years.
(d) 45 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kazu do as the Kaempfer cicadas sing while he laid Setsuko's remains near their son?

2. According to Kazu's father, how long had there ancestors been in Soma?

3. What do the two businessmen Kazu observes walking toward the Shimizu Kannon Temple discuss on their walk?

4. What was Kazu's first job when he moved to Tokyo?

5. How is the bench that Kazu sees an old man on so still he seems he could be dead described?

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