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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Twenty through Twenty-Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Rodrigues begin to feel about Blackthorne?
(a) he likes him and plans to help him.
(b) he begins to suspect he is not a pilot.
(c) he suspects he is a spy for Toranga.
(d) he likes him but suspects he is a danger to him.

3. Although he treats Blackthorne well, what does Mura believe?
(a) that the samurai will chop off his head.
(b) that he will become a slave of the shōgun.
(c) that he will be forced to fight a samurai.
(d) that the daimyo will order Blackthorne's execution.

4. How does Kiri divert attention from Toranaga as they make their escape?
(a) she shouts for care to be taken of Sazuko who has fallen.
(b) she does a dance for the soldiers to see.
(c) she screams that she is going into labor.
(d) she sets fire to her kimono.

5. During the trip on the galley, how does the weather change?
(a) a storm comes up.
(b) the sea becomes calm.
(c) it begins to snow.
(d) the clouds hide the stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the position of Toda Hiro-matsu?

2. What does Blackthorne suspect about the daimyo, Kasigi Yabu, Lord of Izu?

3. Who knows there have been secret deals between Ishido and two of the others who rule for Yaemon?

4. How do Blackthorne and his men determine which of them will be executed?

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

(see the answer key)

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