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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 26 - 52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kazu feel may be the only thing he left on earth?
(a) Despondence.
(b) A sense of tiredness.
(c) Material objects.
(d) Pollution.

2. Why was Kazu unable to take his children on a helicopter ride in Haramachi during the Bon holidays when they were young?
(a) They arrived too late.
(b) His wife would not allow it.
(c) The children were too young.
(d) Tickets were too expensive.

3. Who brought Kazu and his wife to the morgue after their son's death?
(a) Yoko's husband.
(b) Kazu's mother.
(c) Mari.
(d) Yoko.

4. What event coincided with the birth of Kazu's first son?
(a) The start of the war.
(b) The death of the Emperor.
(c) The death of Kazu's father.
(d) The birth of the prince.

5. What brought many of the homeless to Tokyo in the first place?
(a) They came after their villages were destroyed by tsunamis.
(b) They came because they heard people took care of the homeless.
(c) They came in search of work.
(d) They came to see the Olympics and never left.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Kazu use when he thinks of what Shige was like when he knew him?

2. What did Kazu notice as he stared at his son's face after he died?

3. How old were Kazu's parents when they died?

4. When was the only time bill collectors did not come to Kazu's when his children were young?

5. What was Kazu distraught when his wife needed a midwife while she was in labor with their son?

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