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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Chapters 31-37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 29, what does Izzy compare herself--and other Japanese Americans who return to Japan--to?
(a) Bugs trapped in amber.
(b) Domestic pets.
(c) Bonsai trees.
(d) Koi fish.

2. What does the article in Women Now reveal about the empress's background?
(a) She is from one of the families stripped of their nobility.
(b) She grew up in a Tokyo orphanage and no one is sure who her birth parents are.
(c) She is a commoner who grew up in a poor village.
(d) She is distantly related to the emperor.

3. In Chapter 14, what does Akio tell Izzy he has started to understand about her?
(a) She leads with her heart.
(b) She is stronger and smarter than she appears.
(c) She uses humor to hide her vulnerability.
(d) She is impulsive, but not a bad person.

4. Who is David Meier?
(a) The professor whose class Hanako and Makoto were in together.
(b) The mutual friend who introduced Hanako to Makoto.
(c) A professor in Stockholm who knows Izzy's father.
(d) The other man that Hanako thought might be Izzy's father.

5. Why did Akio not get in touch with Izzy right after the Tokyo Tattler story broke?
(a) He did not see the story before she suddenly left Japan.
(b) He was convinced he had ruined her life.
(c) He tried, but Yoshi did not deliver the note he entrusted to him.
(d) He tried, but Izzy had blocked international numbers on her cell phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the car on the way to the palace in Chapter 23, how is Izzy feeling about being back in Tokyo and seeing her father again?

2. How did Shirasu's father die?

3. What is the name of the exclusive school that Akiko and Noriko attend?

4. What do both Izzy and her mother accuse one another of at the Black Bear Diner?

5. Who does Izzy think is "stuffy but kind of hot" when she first sees him? (46)

(see the answer key)

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