Snow Falling on Cedars Quizzes

Snow Falling on Cedars Quiz 1

1 What is the charge against Kabuo Miyamoto?
Grand larceny

First degree murder

Third degree murder

Second degree murder
2 How is Ishmael different from the other reporters in the courtroom?
He is excited about the trial

He drinks excessively

He takes off his jacket

He is a local
3 What about the body of Carl Heines provokes suspicion?
The fact that he was caught in his own net

The weight of the body

The eyes

The wound on the left side of his head
4 After whom does Carl Heine name his boat the Susan Marie?
His eldest daughter

A childhood lover

His wife

His mother
5 Who founded the San Piedro Review?
Alvin Hook

Ishmael Chambers

Carl Heine

Arthur Chambers
6 Why does Horace Whaley suspect that a Japanese man injured Carl Heine?
Carl Heine's wife is Japanese

The injury on his head is similar to that made by a kendo maneuver

The sea was full of Japanese fishermen at the time

He knows that the Japanese community dislikes him
7 What does the presence of foam in Carl Heine's mouth indicate?
His blood type was rare

He had been drinking too much alcohol the night of his death

He had been struck in the head

He had been breathing when he hit the water
8 What does Horace Whaley discover on Carl Heine's hand?
A hangnail

A large cut

A leech

A wedding ring
9 What does Susan Marie do when she learns of Carl Heine's death?
She sits on the bottom stair in her house

She sells the house

She brews tea

She screams at her three sons
10 Why do the Japanese sit in the back of the courtroom?
Because it is warmer in the back

Because they are weeping

Because it is socially compelled

Because it is illegal for them to sit in the front
11 Who is crowned Strawberry Princess during the annual Strawberry Festival?
The winner by election

Alternately a Japanese and an American maiden each year.

A German-American maiden

A Japanese-American maiden
12 What does Ishmael teach Hatsue to do when she is ten?
To pick strawberries

To ride a bicycle

To climb trees

To swim
13 What do both Hatsue and Kabuo dream of having one day?
A fishing boat

A newspaper

A strawberry farm

A voyage to Japan
14 Why do Kabuo and Hatsue play the radio on their wedding night?
So that they can fall asleep

So that they can sing their favorite songs together

So they can dance

So no one will hear them
15 Where do Ishmael and Hatsue meet secretly during their youth?
On the beach

Inside a cedar tree

In the strawberry fields

Behind Ishmael's house
16 Why does Zenhichi Miyamoto want to lease seven acres of land from Carl Heine Senior?
So that he may later sell it to Hatsue's father

So that he can experiment with growing squash

So that he can expand his already vast holdings

So that his eldest son Kabuo can take title to the land
17 What does Etta Heine do with the farmland upon her husband's death?
Sell it to Zenhichi Miyamoto

Sell it to Ole Jurgensen

Continue to farm it

Lease it out until her son's return from the war
18 Why could the Japanese not purchase land on San Piedro Island?
The banks would not hold their money

The Japanese already owned too large of a percentage of the island

It was against the law for an alien to own title to land

They did not desire to own the land
19 What does Kabuo give Carl Heine as a gift in their youth?
A bamboo fishing rod

Sheet music

A letter

A samurai sword
20 How does Etta Heine characterize the relationship between her son Carl and Kabuo?
As fishing partners

As best friends

As enemies

As childhood playmates
21 Why does Etta complain about Kabuo to her son?
She says that Kabuo has been sending harrassing letters

She says that Kabuo has gathered the entire Japanese community against her

She says that Kabuo is throwing her dirty looks

She says that Kabuo has been stealing money from her room
22 How many acres total does Ole Jergensen own in the Center Valley after purchasing from Etta?
10 acres

7 acres

65 acres

100 acres
23 Where does Etta move to?
A room in Amity Harbor

A smaller house

The room that Ishmael later rents

Seattle
24 What is a key issue around which Carl Heine Senior and his wife Etta disagree?
Kabuo Miyamoto

How to raise their children

Religion

The character of the Japanese
25 What does Horace Whaley do with Carl Heine's body that makes Abel vomit?
He opens the chest

He cuts off the ear

He scalps the head

He peels off half of his face