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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 31-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Joncour's neighbor in the end?
(a) His wife and daughters leave him and he dies.
(b) He moves in with Helene and Joncour.
(c) His wife puts him away in a hospital for the insane.
(d) His daughters take care of him until he dies.

2. What spreads to Africa and India in the 1860s?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) The silk-manufacturing business.
(c) The plague.
(d) Pebrine silkworm disease.

3. What did Baldabiou show the mayor when he first arrived in town?
(a) Silkworm eggs.
(b) A silk tunic.
(c) A silk-manufacturing plant.
(d) A silk scarf.

4. When Hara Kei was a child, his father told him to shoot an arrow into the air. What was Hara Hei supposed to do after that?
(a) Shoot another arrow in the opposite direction.
(b) Get the dead bird.
(c) Follow the flight of the arrow to find his fortune.
(d) Watch it disappear from view.

5. Who came to Japan in 1853?
(a) Commodore Matthew C. Perry.
(b) President Lincoln.
(c) A delagation from India.
(d) The Manchurians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joncour do for the rest of the year when he's not working?

2. When Joncour arrives at his house in Hara Kei's village on his third trip, he can see Hara Kei's house. What does he notice?

3. By Imperial Decree, how many masts could a ship have sailing into Japan's harbors?

4. What is happening in America at the beginning of the novel?

5. What novel is Flaubert writing at the time in the novel?

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