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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12 – Gladioli (March 1975).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hanae in Chapter 13, what do the neighbors believe about Yuki's departure?
(a) Yuki is a headstrong girl that had no discipline.
(b) Hanae is a bad stepmother that drove Yuki away.
(c) Yuki has been sent away to live with her aunt again.
(d) Hideki does not miss Yuki now that she is gone.

2. Who rearranged furniture to prepare for the wake?
(a) Yuki and her aunt.
(b) Yuki's grandmother and aunt.
(c) The men.
(d) Yuki and her father.

3. What does Yuki find at the bottom of the boxes?
(a) Old tea sets.
(b) Shizuko's letters to Yuki.
(c) Shizuko's jewelry.
(d) Family photographs.

4. What does Yuki offer to do when she speaks to Shizuko on the phone in Chapter 1?
(a) Pay her piano teacher.
(b) Apologize for starting a fight at baseball practice.
(c) Come home immediately and fix supper.
(d) Collect cherry blossoms for a wreath.

5. To whom does Shizuko write notes in Chapter 1?
(a) Miss Uozumi and her mother.
(b) Hideki and Yuki.
(c) Hideki and her mother.
(d) The village carpenter and Yuki.

Short Answer Questions

1. No matter how much she looks, what can Hanae never find in Yuki's room?

2. Who arrives just as Yuki goes upstairs to change her clothes on the day of the wake?

3. Why does Yuki apologize to Masa in Chapter 7?

4. At the end of Chapter 10, what does Yuki believe Shizuko would have wished for if given the chance?

5. What reason does Yuki give her teacher for not wanting to dissect a frog?

(see the answer key)

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