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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr. Whitman has done an examination of
(a) Carl Heine's hand
(b) The fishing gaff
(c) Susan marie's motives
(d) Kabuo's mental state

2. After the jury is excused, Ishmael contemplates his
(a) Plan to make sure Kabuo is convicted
(b) Ongoing desire for Hatsue
(c) Decision not to give Soames the report
(d) Prejudice against all Japanese

3. After the war Hatsue learned to live with
(a) Her husband's sorrow and guilt
(b) Her husband's poor wages
(c) Kabuo not wanting children
(d) Kabuo's impotence

4. Before he set out to fish, Kabuo put his hand on the water and
(a) Cooled his green tea
(b) Scared away a gull
(c) Measured its coldness
(d) Prayed for luck and safety

5. Ishmael does not feel his mother can understand his
(a) Rage for Hatsue
(b) Emotional coldness
(c) Remorse for his actions
(d) Prejudice against Japanese

6. Kabuo and Carl make a deal for the seven acres, and seal it with
(a) Friendly smiles
(b) A promise to return the fishing rod
(c) A salute
(d) Gripping hands together

7. Judge Lew Fielding admits to the jury that hearsay, even in a criminal trial, is still
(a) A crime
(b) Intolerable
(c) Inadmissable
(d) A shady area

8. Ishmael learns that the seamen who were on duty the night of Carl's death
(a) Are now working in Canada
(b) Were fired by the coast guard
(c) Have been transferred
(d) Were lost in the storm

9. Kabuo is arrested due to the
(a) Lie about the new mooring line
(b) Discovery of a gaff with a bloody handle
(c) Lack of resistance he has shown
(d) Attitude he has taken toward the Sheriff

10. The jurors cannot convict the defendant if there remains in their minds
(a) A prejudice against Japanese
(b) A premeditated decision
(c) Any anger toward the defendant
(d) A reasonable doubt

11. Reviewing the errands he must run due to the storm, Ishmael plans to
(a) Offer Hatsue and her family a ride
(b) Go into Anacortes for the national news
(c) Borrow the printing press in the Seattle office
(d) Get a storm report from the Coast Guard station

12. Before Kabuo could come forward with his story of the events on the boat with Carl Heine,
(a) Etta Heine accosted him
(b) He became too angry to talk
(c) Sheriff Moran arrested him
(d) Hatsue warned him not to

13. Hatsue hoped that having children would help Kabuo
(a) Become more open and giving
(b) Become a better husband and son
(c) Become more focused on something besides himself
(d) Become less obsessed with his dream of farming

14. Ishmael remembers that his father did not
(a) Slow down much
(b) Read the paper very much
(c) Appear to wish for something else
(d) Read all of his books

15. Nels Gudmundsson includes in his closing argument an insight into
(a) How old age makes one mellower
(b) How fog makes everything distorted
(c) How injustice is passed through generations
(d) How different things are when death is near

Short Answer Questions

1. While the Sheriff reads the shorthand notes on the Coast Guard report

2. When Kabuo asks to buy back his land, Carl Heine tells him

3. Ishmael's mother, Helen Chambers, is

4. Kabuo Miyamoto wants to be a fisherman

5. Alvin Hooks' witness, Dr. Sterling Whitman, is a

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