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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 53 - 81.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kazu feel may be the only thing he left on earth?
(a) Pollution.
(b) A sense of tiredness.
(c) Despondence.
(d) Material objects.

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

3. What did the priest tell Setsuko people should do when someone dies rather than mourning them?
(a) They should pretend they are still alive.
(b) They should think of the good times they had together.
(c) They should try to forget them.
(d) They should thank them for connecting them to the Buddha.

4. How old was Kazu when the war ended?
(a) 7.
(b) 21.
(c) 12.
(d) 16.

5. What happened to much of Kazu and his family's things right around Koichi's birth?
(a) Everything got washed away in a tsunami.
(b) They sold most of their things to neighbors.
(c) Someone robbed them.
(d) They were repossessed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who left a message for Kazu to tell him his son died while he was working in Hokkaido?

2. Who brought Kazu and his wife to the morgue after their son's death?

3. What is one thing Pure Land followers did that angered the natives in Soma?

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

5. Where is Kazu originally from?

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