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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Forty-Seven through Fifty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Domingo say about the prisoners in the place where he and Blackthorne are?
(a) they will be used as medical experiments.
(b) they will all be released.
(c) they are all condemned to die.
(d) they will soon be forgotten.

2. Who does Blackthorne meet in prison?
(a) some of his old crewmen.
(b) the grandson of Hiro-matsu.
(c) Father Sebastio.
(d) a Friar named Domingo.

3. What causes Toranaga to have trouble sleeping?
(a) he is thinking about many problems he faces.
(b) he fears assassination.
(c) his wife snores.
(d) his bed it too hard.

4. What offer does Rodrigues make to Blackthorne?
(a) to help him escape.
(b) to copy his rutters.
(c) to make him his first mate.
(d) to put in a good word for him.

5. What permission does Toranaga give Blackthorne about his crew?
(a) that he could bury them.
(b) that he could send them back to Portugal.
(c) that he could visit them.
(d) that he could return them to the ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ultimatum is given Blackthorne about his learning the language?

2. How is Rodrigues when the galley arrives safely in Osaka?

3. What does Blackthorne admit to Toranaga about the war between Spain and Holland?

4. Why is there someone always following Blackthorne?

5. What are the living conditions of Blackthorne's crew?

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