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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. Why does Rodrigues go aboard the Erasmus?
(a) looking for Blackthorne.
(b) removing the canon.
(c) guiding the Japanese.
(d) looking for the rutters.

2. How does the galley get safely into the harbor?
(a) a freak wind saves it.
(b) the storm ceases.
(c) another galley comes to haul it.
(d) Blackthorne pilots it.

3. What prevents Rodrigues from breaking the seal on the thing he is delivering to Toranaga?
(a) his fear of the priest.
(b) Blackthorne is watching.
(c) there is no way to reseal it.
(d) his religious ideals.

4. Who comes to take Blackthorne from the pit?
(a) a courtesan.
(b) Yabu himself.
(c) a young boy.
(d) a priest.

5. What does Domingo teach Blackthorne?
(a) some words and phrases in Japanese.
(b) how to keep warm in the cell.
(c) some Biblical history.
(d) how to plan an escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the pilot of the galley that will take Blackthorne to Osaka?

2. What happens to Rodrigues during the storm?

3. Who does Yokodo tell Toranaga he should marry?

4. What does Blackthorne suspect about Father Sabastio?

5. How is Rodrigues found the morning after the storm?

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