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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 – Tiptoes (April 1970).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Yuki feel queasy on the day of the wedding?
(a) She is queasy from the boat ride from Tokyo.
(b) She is queasy from the sake.
(c) She is queasy from the smell of her mother's perfume.
(d) She is queasy from the train ride from Tokyo.

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

3. What does Shizuko's mother say the morning of the wake?
(a) "I never knew she suffered from depression."
(b) "I thought my children would outlive me a long time."
(c) "I am not surprised that she chose to end her own life."
(d) "I always knew she suffered from depression."

4. What causes Shizuko to wake up from her nap in Chapter 1?
(a) Cherry blossom petals fall on her.
(b) She smells gas.
(c) She hears crashing thunder.
(d) The telephone rings.

5. Where does the wake take place?
(a) In Yuki's house.
(b) In the village funeral parlor.
(c) In Tokyo.
(d) In the park where Shizuko loved to catch cherry blossoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shizuko do immediately after her phone call with Yuki in Chapter 1?

2. What do Yuki and her Aunt Aya do together just before the wake?

3. In Shizuko's dream at the beginning of Chapter 1, who is throwing rice cakes to a crowd?

4. Which sentence best characterizes Yuki's behavior on the day of the wake?

5. Why do Yuki and Aunt Aya go to Kobe at the beginning of Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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