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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lotus Blossom need a teahouse for?
(a) For a place to drink tea.
(b) For a place to live.
(c) For a place to teach the ladies how to become Geisha.
(d) For a place to teach dance.

2. What does Col. Purdy think of American air and wind?
(a) The air is clean and the wind is fresh.
(b) The air is light and the wind is breezy.
(c) The air is fresh and the wind is clean.
(d) The air is cool and the wind is mild.

3. What did the potential buyers think of the straw hats?
(a) They thought it would make them look like country singers.
(b) They wanted the hats to be in different colors.
(c) They thought it would make them look like "hayseed."
(d) They wanted a bandana around the hats for color.

4. What is the significance of one of the contestant's black shorts during the wresting match?
(a) Black is Lotus Blossom's favorite color.
(b) Black mean death.
(c) Nothing. Just easy to keep clean.
(d) Black is the symbol of the moon.

5. What does Capt. McLean say chemicals on plants will do?
(a) They will kill the plants.
(b) They will kill the earthworms.
(c) They put nitrogen in the soil.
(d) They are good for the plants.

6. What do they call the liquor that was made 10 days ago?
(a) Happy Brandy.
(b) 10 star Brandy.
(c) Blue Ribbon Brandy.
(d) Special Brandy.

7. What song do Fisby and Capt. McLean sing after the wrestling match?
(a) "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain".
(b) "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall".
(c) "Deep in the Heart of Texas".
(d) "Sunnyside of the Street".

8. What did Col. Purdy promise his wife?
(a) That he would come out of the army a General.
(b) That he would be home by July.
(c) That he would retire this year.
(d) That he will build her a house after retirement.

9. What is the villagers' liquor made from?
(a) Sweet potatoes.
(b) Rice.
(c) Apples.
(d) Plums.

10. What do the townspeople want to buy with the money they make from selling liquor?
(a) White coats.
(b) Another Geisha.
(c) More stills.
(d) More lumber.

11. When Col. Purdy enters during the song after the wrestling match, what does Fisby do about his legs?
(a) He tries to cover them.
(b) He stares down at them.
(c) He jumps in a chair to hide them.
(d) He puts on his pants to cover them.

12. How many castings do earthworms leave behind?
(a) Two times their own weight every day.
(b) They don't leave behind castings.
(c) Eight times their own weight every day.
(d) Two times their own weight every week.

13. When Fisby has been ordered to leave, what does Lotus Blossom want?
(a) She wants to marry McLean.
(b) She wants to go to Tokyo.
(c) She wants to marry Sakini.
(d) She wants to marry Fisby.

14. What are the kimonos made from?
(a) Target cloth.
(b) Parachute silk.
(c) Bathrobes.
(d) Cloth made in the village.

15. According to Sakini, how does fortune often come?
(a) From the mouths of our mothers.
(b) Inside a fortune cookie.
(c) In the back door while we look out the window.
(d) When we least expect it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cricket cages does Fisby own by the time he meets Capt. McLean?

2. Why did the potential buyers think the price was too high?

3. Fisby tells Capt. McLean that he feels free. When does he say this feeling started?

4. What are some of Capt. McLean's favorite plants?

5. Where is the paperwork that Col. Purdy wants to see hiding?

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