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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jiro admire about the boy who is disciplined?
(a) He knew what to do for the master.
(b) He intimitdated another boy.
(c) He found another way to move.
(d) He does not cry out.

2. What list does Yoshida post?
(a) The names of the expected attendees of the opening night of the new play.
(b) A list of new words in the play.
(c) The rotation of cleaning and scrubbing duties.
(d) The boys' roles in the new play.

3. What does Jiro find when he is stealing the text of the next play?
(a) A letter from Hanji to Yoshida.
(b) A basket hat.
(c) A letter from Yoshida to Saburo.
(d) Nothing out of the ordinary.

4. What does Jiro ask Mochida?
(a) For more work.
(b) For a short letter of introduction.
(c) For permission to check on his father.
(d) For help with a puppet Jiro is making.

5. What is Mochida's response to Jiro's question?
(a) There is no more work.
(b) Jiro has to work longer for a recommendation.
(c) Jiro may visit Hanji.
(d) The puppet is unbalanced.

6. What happens to the snipe?
(a) It breaks.
(b) It gets caught in the clam.
(c) It falls off stage.
(d) Its mechanism squeals.

7. About what has Yoshida just sent word?
(a) He needs a whole set of children puppets.
(b) He needs a special Empress puppet.
(c) He needs several new puppets.
(d) He does not need the new puppet Hanji is making.

8. Who wears baskets on their heads?
(a) The wives of the merchant class.
(b) Fishmongers.
(c) The wives of the peasant class.
(d) Komuso monks.

9. What does Jiro do the next morning after speaking to Mochida?
(a) Runs away to the city.
(b) Goes to visit his grandfather.
(c) Goes to see his father.
(d) Writes his mother a letter.

10. What does Jiro hope about his father?
(a) He will come to the performance.
(b) He will let Jiro come back home.
(c) He will recover from his bad fall.
(d) He will get a job with Yoshida also.

11. Who comes to the theater the next morning?
(a) Isako.
(b) Jiro's youngest brother.
(c) Saburo.
(d) Hanji.

12. Who saves Jiro from a ronin?
(a) Kenshi.
(b) Yoshida.
(c) Hanji.
(d) Jiro saves himself.

13. Who is Yoshida?
(a) A master potter.
(b) Jiro's uncle.
(c) Jiro's brother.
(d) The master puppeteer.

14. What tells Yoshida tell Jiro to do?
(a) To watch the play once to understand the plot.
(b) Get ready for the performance.
(c) To go home.
(d) To sit in the corner quietly until after the performance.

15. What is the state of Jiro's family?
(a) Hungry.
(b) They have to move.
(c) They have to send in more tax money.
(d) Comfortable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kwada's job in the theater?

2. How does Jiro feel about himself in regards to his family?

3. What does Jiro offer to do for Kenshi?

4. Who offers the reward for Saburo's capture?

5. What does Jiro do that is rude?

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