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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word best describes Rodrigues' prison cell?
(a) A cage
(b) A cave
(c) A small hut
(d) A hole

2. Where do the guards eat?
(a) At a house
(b) At the water front
(c) On the mountain side
(d) At a cafe

3. Which Portuguese name does the interpreter mention?
(a) Ferreira
(b) Garrde
(c) Santa Marta
(d) Cristano

4. Who waits for Rodrigues in another room?
(a) The interpreter and two guards
(b) His parents
(c) Inoue
(d) The pope

5. What does Rodrigues have to try and identify the objects as?
(a) Mineral or vegetable
(b) Western
(c) Expensive
(d) Christian

6. Who does Ferreira say would also have apostacized in the same situation?
(a) Jesus
(b) The pope
(c) Abraham
(d) Samson

7. Who has to give permission before Rodrigues leaves his cell?
(a) Macao
(b) The pope
(c) Ferreirer
(d) Inoue

8. What is the goal of a missionary?
(a) To find gold
(b) To lead people to a new land
(c) To become powerful
(d) To uplift people

9. What does Rodrigues convince the guard to give him?
(a) A stamp
(b) A bible
(c) Paper
(d) A gun

10. What does the woman offer Rodrigues to eat?
(a) A pickle
(b) Some nuts
(c) A cucumber
(d) An egg

11. What is the only thing Rodrigues can do in his new room?
(a) Look out of the window
(b) Draw
(c) Read
(d) Tap out songs on his wall

12. What does the interpreter try and persuade Rodrigues to do?
(a) Kill himself
(b) Apostacize
(c) Conduct a confession
(d) Marry a Japanese woman

13. What is Rodrigues granted permission to do?
(a) Go home to Portugal
(b) Visit the peasants as they work
(c) Meet the magistrate
(d) Go shopping

14. With whom did Inoue formerly consult?
(a) A monk
(b) A judge
(c) A village elder
(d) A Christian father

15. In what does Ferreira say the Japanese have never believed?
(a) Sex before marriage
(b) Religion
(c) True love
(d) The Christian God

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Samurai tell Rodrigues?

2. What is the role of the next samurai who visits Rodrigues?

3. In what are the three peasants wrapped?

4. What happened to Yokose-no-Ura?

5. What do the children throw at his window?

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