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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Inoue not consider Christianity to be?
(a) A good way of life
(b) A religion
(c) An evil religion
(d) Freedom

3. What usually precedes the final procession?
(a) Execution
(b) Torture
(c) Forced marriage
(d) Release

4. What new town does Rodrigues travel to in this chapter?
(a) Nagasaki
(b) Yokoso-no-Ura
(c) Yuta-fu-jaki
(d) Jeuno

5. To whose situation does Rodrigues compare his own?
(a) Moses
(b) Abraham
(c) Jesus
(d) John the Baptist

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rodrigues ask for an explanation?

2. Who has ordered the peasants' torture?

3. What does Rodrigues convince the guard to give him?

4. Where does the caravan stop?

5. Where are the three peasants paraded?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the priest contemplate as he watches the death of the old man?

2. What do Ferreria and Rodrigues talk about in Chapter 7?

3. Describe Rodrigues' meeting with the five samurai.

4. How is Rodrigues humiliated at the beginning of Chapter 8?

5. Why is Rodrigues transported in a covered caravan?

6. What ultimatum does the samurai give Rodrigues in Chapter 5?

7. How does Rodrigues react to the sound of his jailer snoring?

8. How does Rodrigues contradict his own advice during his captivity?

9. Why did Ferreira decide to apostatize?

10. Describe the reappearance of Kichijiro in Chapter 6.

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