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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the animal ride on the trip?
(a) He is on the back.
(b) He is tied with a rope to the jeep.
(c) He rides at the top with the old woman.
(d) On the hood with the children.

2. What does "Hai" mean in English according to Sakini?
(a) O.K.
(b) Yes, that means no.
(c) Hi.
(d) No.

3. What is the daughter pushing when she arrives in Act 1, Scene 2?
(a) A shopping cart.
(b) A wheelbarrow.
(c) A bike.
(d) A baby stroller.

4. Why do the people of the village want to make Hokaida Chief of Police?
(a) He is a good wrestler and people are afraid of him.
(b) He is the tallest man in the village.
(c) He owns his own gun.
(d) He is the strongest man in the village.

5. How is Fisby to instruct the women of the village?
(a) In the classroom.
(b) Sakini is supposed to teach the women.
(c) Through the use of Okinawan songs.
(d) Through a series of lectures on democracy.

6. What is Miss Higa Jiga complaining about in particular?
(a) The democratic lectures.
(b) All the noise from the new building.
(c) The rice shortage.
(d) That Lotus Blossom goes to the front of the line in the rice rations line.

7. What is the first kind of business Fisby thinks of starting in the village?
(a) Teaching school for entire area.
(b) Farming.
(c) A souvenir business.
(d) Manual labor.

8. What animal comes with them on the trip?
(a) A goat.
(b) A cricket.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A pig.

9. What does Mr. Seiko give to Fisby?
(a) A bottle of brandy.
(b) A hat.
(c) A kimono.
(d) Geta or wooden sandals.

10. What is Col. Purdy looking for as Act 1, Scene 1 ends?
(a) His magazine.
(b) His toothbrush.
(c) His pants.
(d) His bathrobe.

11. Who is the old woman sitting on top of the bundles related to?
(a) The village mayor.
(b) Fisby.
(c) The Colonel.
(d) The emperor.

12. What do the villagers do at 5:30 p.m.?
(a) Go to bed.
(b) Sit in the pine grove, sip tea, and watch the sun go down.
(c) Go to the local teahouse.
(d) Make brandy.

13. What does Mr. Hokaida give as a gift?
(a) A cricket cage.
(b) A cricket.
(c) A goat.
(d) A teacup.

14. What is the first industry that Fisby sets up for the village?
(a) Sewing white robes.
(b) Making geta and cricket cages.
(c) Collecting shells.
(d) Making kimonos.

15. Why did Fisby not report the birth of six kids in his report to the Col. under Population Increases?
(a) They are American and do not belong to the village.
(b) Fisby did not know about the births.
(c) They are goats.
(d) They are not counted until they are three years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sakini get Fisby to let Lotus Blossom teach the other women in town?

2. What did the children want to see on the trip?

3. In what language does Col. Purdy count his laundry items?

4. What shape will the new schoolhouse be in the village?

5. When, according to Col. Purdy, will US troops be out of Okinawa?

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