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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 going to be the entrance fee for a special showing of "The Thief of the Tokaido"?
(a) Free.
(b) Half price.
(c) Two for one.
(d) Same as always.

2. What does Jiro realize about the puppeteer?
(a) It is Yoshida.
(b) It is Okada.
(c) It is Hanji.
(d) It is Toza.

3. What does Jiro ask Kinshi after the performance?
(a) Not to go out again that night.
(b) To go with Jiro to see Jiro's mother.
(c) To see if Yoshida will excuse Kenshi from the play.
(d) If Kinshi is ill.

4. Where does Jiro decide to practice his part?
(a) In the upstairs storeroom.
(b) The stable.
(c) In the practice room.
(d) Down by the river.

5. What does Yoshida tell the boys to get?
(a) Some rice.
(b) Some newly-made fish balls.
(c) Some sleep.
(d) Mallets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is happening in the city when Jiro goes there after the performance?

2. To whom does Jiro think it would be best to talk?

3. Who is at the door one night when Jiro and Kinshi hear a banging sound?

4. Why does Jiro know he cannot turn in Yashida?

5. What does Jiro want his mother to do when he sees her in the audience?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jiro arrange the meeting with Okada?

2. What does Jiro find when he goes into the storeroom and what happens as he trying to decide what to do?

3. Describe the latest theft Saburo pulls off.

4. What does Okada tell Jiro and how does Jiro react?

5. What does Hanji tell Jiro and offer to do, and what is Jiro's response?

6. What wakes Jiro in the night and what is the outcome?

7. What part is Kinshi assigned in the new play and what does Jiro learn as they go to get puppets for Kinshi to practice?

8. What does Jiro think about concerning arranging a meeting with Saburo?

9. What does Okada tell Tozo after Jiro leaves Okada?

10. What does the assistant magistrate first tell Yoshida and what does the assistant magistrate later say?

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