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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does the baker tell Yoshiro he no longer paints? (from Pages 1 - 31)

Because he was imprisoned for the paintings he used to make.

Because he does not believe people should make art anymore.

Because everything he painted would look like a foreign place.

Because he always enjoyed making bread more.

2.

What does Yonatani realize is the only thing he can teach his students? (from Pages 107 - 138)

How to become a suitable emissary candidate.

How the government has made many negative changes to their culture and climate.

How to cultivate language.

What the world looked like before Japan was isolated.

3.

What does Yoshiro bury in Thingamabob Cemetery and why? (from Pages 32 - 69)

His first historical novel "Ken-to-shi, Emissary to China," because of all its references to foreign countries.

His letters from Amana because he cannot read them anyway.

Mumei's thermometer because Dr. Satori tells him the child is no longer sick.

Mumei's wheelchair because Mumei no longer has trouble walking.

4.

What does Tomo tell Yoshiro are the most important things in his life? (from Pages 70 - 91)

Writing. Throwing. Reading.

Drinking. Dancing. Buying.

Buying. Reading. Drinking.

Buying. Throwing. Drinking.

5.

Why did people formerly believe that parents should respond immediately to their children's cries? (from Pages 70 - 91)

Because they believed the umbilical cord between generations should never be severed.

Because they believed that the relationship between the parent and child was the most important in the world.

Because they believed if you let your child cry it out they would later become stubborn and never ask for help.

Because they believed children would never learn how to take care of themselves later if their parents did not take care of them.

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