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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what country does Jiro live?
(a) Korea.
(b) Indonesia.
(c) China.
(d) Japan.

3. What is Jiro's part in the new play?
(a) Foot manipulator for one of the whale puppets.
(b) Curtain raiser.
(c) Snipe holder.
(d) Foot manipulator for one of the female puppets.

4. Who is Mochida?
(a) The head of the puppet's guild.
(b) The head of the blacksmith's guild.
(c) A kind man who oversees the apprentices.
(d) Yoshida's tailor.

5. Who is Okada?
(a) The master painter.
(b) The master chanter.
(c) The cook.
(d) The stable hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wears baskets on their heads?

2. What does Kinshi say the left-hand operators will do?

3. What does the person who calls him selfish say will be the result of Jiro joining the theater?

4. What does Jiro find when he is stealing the text of the next play?

5. What does Yoshido say about Jiro?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do some of the attendees feel about the resemblance of Joman to Saburo?

2. What does Kinshi steal for a celebration and what happens?

3. What does Yoshida tell Jiro when Jiro presents himself to the man and how does Kinshi reassure Jiro?

4. Who posts the roles for the new play and what is Jiro's role?

5. How is Jiro's family getting along?

6. Where do Jiro and his father go and spend their money, and who do they talk to there?

7. What play does Okada finish and what do the apprentices worry about concerning the new play?

8. Why is Jiro almost attacked and who saves him?

9. What do Jiro and Kinshi think of Yoshida's performance?

10. Who does Jiro find at the house when he gets home and what does Jiro learn from him?

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