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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 is the name of the park Kazu haunts and used to live in when he was alive?
(a) Ueno Arboretum.
(b) Ueno Imperial Gift Park.
(c) Tokyo Rose Garden.
(d) Tokyo Station Public Park.

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

3. Why did Kazu stay outside of Ueno Station when he was alive?
(a) He sold watches and jewelry outside the station.
(b) He was a police officer assigned to patrol the area.
(c) He was homeless and that is where many homeless people lived.
(d) He worked as a ticketer at the station.

4. Why did Kazu's father speak to the mourners at the funeral?
(a) Because the eldest male always speaks at a funeral.
(b) Because Kazu was unable to.
(c) Because Kazu's father was a priest.
(d) Because Setsuko had asked him to speak.

5. How old was Kazu when he went to Tokyo to find work?
(a) 21.
(b) 43.
(c) 30.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is typically the person to carry the funeral tablet at a funeral?

2. What unusual fact do readers learn about the narrator at the start of the story?

3. What do Pure Land followers believe happens to their dead?

4. What happened to much of Kazu and his family's things right around Koichi's birth?

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

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