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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Ten through Nineteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Toda's plan for the Erasmus?
(a) to destroy the erasmus.
(b) to confiscate the goods and the ship for Toranga.
(c) to remove the canons from the ship.
(d) to confiscate the ship for himself.

2. Satisfied Blackthorne is not an enemy, what does Friar Dominga tell Blackthorne?
(a) about Spanish priests.
(b) about Spanish gold.
(c) about Spanish cuisine.
(d) about Spanish ships.

3. What causes Yabu to defy orders?
(a) the onslaught of winter.
(b) his devotion to his wife.
(c) his plan to become the shōgun.
(d) the potential for riches aboard Blackthorne's ship.

4. Who is the pilot of the galley that will take Blackthorne to Osaka?
(a) an Englishman named Hyde-White.
(b) a Portuguese named Vasco Rodrigues.
(c) a Frenchman named LaSalle.
(d) a Chinese named Li Wang.

5. What happens to Rodrigues during the storm?
(a) his safety line snaps and he is washed overboard.
(b) he misses his chance to kill Blackthorne.
(c) he becomes too ill to pilot the galley.
(d) he has a religious experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Domingo say about the prisoners in the place where he and Blackthorne are?

2. What does Rodrigues believe is in the delivery to Toranaga?

3. What country does Blackthorne say he is not an enemy of?

4. Why does Toranaga deny the young widow the privilege of committing seppuku?

5. What does Blackthorne suspect about Father Sabastio?

(see the answer key)

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