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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jiro say when he asks to speak to Okada?
(a) It must happen that day.
(b) He will have to leave the theater if he cannot speak with Okada.
(c) Jiro does not elaborate.
(d) It is a matter of life and death.

2. What does Jiro discover when he sneaks into the storehouse?
(a) Yoshida is there.
(b) The Samurai sword is gone.
(c) Kenshi is there.
(d) Hanji is there.

3. What does Yashida order Jiro to do?
(a) Practice to be the foot operator for Akoya's part.
(b) Go home and check on his mother.
(c) Go find Kanshi.
(d) Leave and not come back.

4. How does Yoshida react when he hears about what is pinned to the door?
(a) He tells them to ignore the message.
(b) He tells them to post the message in the courtyard.
(c) He tells them to burn the message.
(d) He tells them to take the message to the Shogun.

5. What does the man make the puppet do?
(a) Look like the puppet is about to discover something really big.
(b) Carry a letter.
(c) Look like the puppet is searching for someone.
(d) Faint.

6. How do the boys treat Jiro?
(a) Like a lucky charm.
(b) Like an outsider.
(c) Like a traitor.
(d) The same as always.

7. What does Mochida say when he grabs Jiro?
(a) Yoshida wants to speak to him.
(b) He is needed to play Kenshi's role.
(c) Kenshi needs him at the river.
(d) His father is outside in the courtyard.

8. What does Hanji give Jiro?
(a) His fireman's coat.
(b) A note from Okada.
(c) Some money.
(d) A bandana.

9. What does Kinshi do instead of what he says he is going to do?
(a) Writes in his journal.
(b) Takes food to Jiro's mothre.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Sneaks to the upstairs warehouse.

10. What are the wealthy in the town saying?
(a) The poor need to work harder.
(b) The poor do not deserve to eat.
(c) The police are incompetent.
(d) They will not trust the police again.

11. Why does Jiro know he cannot turn in Yashida?
(a) It would be the end of food for the poor.
(b) It would be a betrayal.
(c) It would leave him without a job.
(d) It would harm his parents.

12. How does Kinshi get out of his chores?
(a) He says he is sick.
(b) He volunteers to deliver an invitation from Yoshida.
(c) He volunteers to go to market.
(d) He says he needs to practice.

13. How does Saburo's gang rob the merchant's house?
(a) They do so after putting the merchant in jail.
(b) They only rob the livestock.
(c) They do not rob the merchant after he gives them some money that is on his person.
(d) By forcing the occupants to vacate the buildings with a search warrant.

14. What does Okada ask Jiro?
(a) If Jiro would lay his life on the line for Kinshi.
(b) If Jiro is tempted to turn in Yoshida.
(c) If Jiro believes in what Kinshi is doing.
(d) If Jiro believes in what Saburo is doing.

15. What does Mochida ask Jiro the next morning?
(a) Why Kanshi seems always tired.
(b) Why Kanshi fell asleep at practice the day before.
(c) Where Kanshi is.
(d) If Kanshi is ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jiro find where he is preparing to practice?

2. Why is Kinshi worried about his part in the next performance?

3. What does Jiro realize about the puppeteer?

4. What does the Samurai tell Yoshida?

5. Where does Kinshi say it is forbidden to go?

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