Short Stories - A Family Supper

Question 1

Give who the father resembles

Answer 1

Chou en lai - first premier of the republic of china

Question 2

What is the house?

Answer 2

Startlingly empty

Question 3

What kind of blood

Answer 3

Pure samurai blood

Question 4

What does the father look like

Answer 4

Stony and forbidding

Question 5

What does watanabe do to himself

Answer 5

Cut his stomach with a meat knife

Question 6

What kind of jaw does the father has

Answer 6

Large stony jaw

Question 7

When is it set?

Answer 7

End of a sunny autumn day

Question 8

Give a quote about change

Answer 8

Dealing with foreigners

Question 9

Give a quote about fugu poisoning

Answer 9

Fugu poisoning is hideously painful and almost always fatal

Question 10

Give a quote about how Kikuko smokes

Answer 10

Unnecessarily theatrical puffs on her cigarette

Question 11

Give how kikuko feels about her bf

Answer 11

I like him, but I’m not sure I want to spend so much time with him

Question 12

How does kikuko laugh

Answer 12

Giggle nervously

Question 13

What is kikuko dying for

Answer 13

Dying for a smoke

Question 14

What are the walls ike

Answer 14

Stark walls

Question 15

What is the light like

Answer 15

Pale light

Question 16

What happened with the plastic battleship

Answer 16

We both gazed at the plastic battleship

Question 17

What does the say about losing children

Answer 17

Not only must they lose their children, They must lose them to tings they don’t understand

Question 18

What did the son leave behind

Answer 18

Just some empty rooms

Question 19

What does the father say to show he knows he is losing his children

Answer 19

Living with an ‘old man’ he self describes

Question 20

What is the idea of committing suicide if disgraced as a way to preserve what is left of one’s honour

Answer 20

Hara kiri

Question 21

What is the samurai code of honour called

Answer 21

Bushido code