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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 131- 160.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kazu find interesting about the calendar hung up in Shige's hut?
(a) He had indicated several medical appointments that month.
(b) He had lots of people's birthdays written on it.
(c) Each month had a picture of a different family member.
(d) He had circled some days in red and some in blue.

2. What does Kazu hear two women joke about when discussing toy poodles?
(a) They joke that they liked dogs better than people.
(b) They joke that their dogs are like their children.
(c) They joke that they do not need husbands as long as they have their dogs.
(d) They joke that the poodles eat better than people.

3. What withered flower does Kazu feel represents his life because it is "closed off with nowhere to go" (160)?
(a) A lotus.
(b) A lily.
(c) A daisy.
(d) A rose.

4. Kazu hears the sigh of a sobbing homeless man who is doing what, which Kazu says is unusual for a homeless person?
(a) Complaining he cannot get work.
(b) Crying that he is hungry.
(c) Pleading with a stranger to help him.
(d) Telling his life story.

5. What did Kazu think was going to happen to him after he died?
(a) He would be reunited with dead family members.
(b) He would be reborn.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He would haunt his living family members.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Kazu see at the Haramachi train station on August 5, 1947?

2. What does the jogger Kazu sees thank God for in his note at the temple?

3. What happened to much of Kazu and his family's things right around Koichi's birth?

4. What news did Kazu receive about his son just days before his death?

5. Kazu sees a man emerge from a cardboard hut near Shinobazu Pond with something that looks like what, which belonged to Shige?

(see the answer key)

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