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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rodrigues believe is in the delivery to Toranaga?
(a) a catechism written in Japanese.
(b) maps from the Erasmus.
(c) orders to kill Blackthorne.
(d) Blackthorne's rutters.

2. How do Blackthorne and his men determine which of them will be executed?
(a) drawing straws.
(b) selecting the youngest.
(c) arm wrestling.
(d) selecting the oldest.

3. What praise does Rodrigues give the Japanese sailors?
(a) they work very cheaply.
(b) they row far past what a normal man would endure.
(c) they never disobey orders.
(d) they are very polite to the pilot.

4. What order does Toda Hiro-matsu issue?
(a) that Yabu keeps Blackthorne in his house.
(b) that Blackthorne be sent to Osaka alone.
(c) that Yabu be executed.
(d) that Yabu return with Blackthorne to Osaka

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Yabu decides not to kill the crew, where are they held?

2. Where is Blackthorne taken out of respect for his position?

3. How did the book Blackthorne looks for happen to be on the Erasmus?

4. Why does Omi, nephew of Yabu, advise that the men from the shipwreck not be killed?

5. During the trip on the galley, how does the weather change?

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