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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yasuckichi have to write for Lieutenant Honda?
(a) An eulogy.
(b) A biography.
(c) A report.
(d) A poem.

2. Who was the next of the narrator's family to die?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His father.
(c) His eldest sister.
(d) His youngest brother.

3. What kind of legs do the Chinese men give Hanzaburo?
(a) Bow legs.
(b) Cow legs.
(c) Horse legs.
(d) Broken legs.

4. What does Yasukichi fill the eulogy with?
(a) Family words and dark similes.
(b) Sincere sentiments and love.
(c) Passionate word and jokes.
(d) Sentimental claptrap and cliche.

5. What does Akutagawa panic about losing?
(a) His phone.
(b) His hat.
(c) His slipper.
(d) His cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Yasukichi hear crying?

2. What part of Tokyo was Shinsuke brought up in?

3. What are the nationality of the two men in the office?

4. What is the only part of the author's brother-in-law's face that stays intact?

5. What does the author apologize for at the beginning of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Akutagawa's wife increase his panic?

2. What amuses Yasukichi at the end of the story?

3. How does Tsuneko react to seeing her husband's horse legs?

4. What are the author's feeling about religion during this time?

5. How does Shinsuke deal with what he calls his fake parents?

6. How do the Honda's relative's react to the eulogy?

7. What is Shinsuke's opinion on books?

8. Why does the storyteller think Oshino is so ordinary?

9. What does the doctor say is wrong with the baby?

10. What does the narrator say he remembers about his mother?

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