Between 30 and 40 words per answer
Explain why the quotations are part of the text.
Give word counts in parentheses after each answer.
1. Mr. de Zoet, I wish to speak about a book you bring (28).
2. Loyalty looks simple, but it ain’t (111).
3. The liberty of Aibagawa Orito is more important than the life of Yayoi and her twins (271).
4. It is safest to assume that your servant is in Enomoto’s pay (276).
5. A moon-gray cat, padding along the wall, catches Uzaemon’s eye (289).
6. Numbers, not names, are engraved on the rocks (302).
7. I shall, of course, tell Numa to darken your halls no longer (358).
8. I desire you to send a message to the magistrate of Nagasaki, on this historic day, that Britons, unlike the Dutch, shall never trample on Our Savior for the sake of profit (393).
9. A sincere personal letter, Your Honor. Please forgive its poor Japanese (450).
10. Jacob hopes, one day, to send a letter to the Englishman from the “Dutch shopkeeper” to ask what stayed his hand from firing the Phoebus’s carronades that autumn day (476-7).
