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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 43.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the principal tell the students to avoid?
(a) The burned-out ruins of buildings.
(b) Making eye contact with American soldiers.
(c) Swimming in the river.
(d) Actions that may be considered rude or defiant.

2. Why are the clubs being disbanded?
(a) Students are too busy rebuilding Kobe.
(b) The Americans have banned all gatherings.
(c) To avoid suspicion of military training.
(d) There is no money for club activities.

3. Who is assigned to clean up the city's bombsites?
(a) Civil servants.
(b) All Kobe citizens.
(c) Students.
(d) Military police.

4. What happens on H's eleventh birthday?
(a) America attacks Japan.
(b) Germany attacks Japan.
(c) Germany attacks the Soviet Union.
(d) Japan defeats China.

5. Where does Ishizuka live?
(a) Next door.
(b) In a dorm.
(c) Above a bookstore.
(d) Behind the school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is considered "un-Japanese" at school?

2. What transportation do the American troops use?

3. What does public opinion think of the possibility of war with America?

4. Who transforms himself into a nice middle-aged gentleman in a suit?

5. Why is Morio's apprentice, Shige, crying when H returns home from school one day?

(see the answer key)

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