Emissary Quiz

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What does Yonatani realize is the only thing he can teach his students? (from Pages 107 - 138)

How to become a suitable emissary candidate.

How the government has made many negative changes to their culture and climate.

How to cultivate language.

What the world looked like before Japan was isolated.

Why did people formerly believe that parents should respond immediately to their children's cries? (from Pages 70 - 91)

Because they believed the umbilical cord between generations should never be severed.

Because they believed if you let your child cry it out they would later become stubborn and never ask for help.

Because they believed that the relationship between the parent and child was the most important in the world.

Because they believed children would never learn how to take care of themselves later if their parents did not take care of them.

How does Yoshiro explain Japan's isolation to Mumei? (from Pages 32 - 69)

He compares closing the borders to closing a book; sometimes you have to know when another world is not helping you understand your own.

He explains that it does not make things better but they have no choice but to deal with it.

He compares closing the borders to separating the rooms in the museum with steel doors; if a fire should start in one room it will not spread to the next.

He explains that it makes things better because it keeps Japanese companies from stealing from the poor people of other countries.

Why does Yoshiro believe Nature herself chose him to be Mumei's guardian? (from Pages 92 - 106)

Because Mumei's parents were not his actual parents anyway.

Because he is the only person who is able to understand Mumei's quirks.

Because Mumei's parents disappeared and there was no one else to do it.

Because he was the only person to become intoxicated by Mumei's milky infant fragrance.

Why does Mumei want to paint the walls of the house blue? (from Pages 1 - 31)

Because he is never content with the way things are.

Because he thinks Yoshiro has bad taste.

To make them look like the sky with pictures of clouds and birds.

To make them look like the ocean with pictures of sharks and turtles.