Learning Task 2
Directions: Answer the following questions and choose your answer on the choices below each item.
1. The Obatsuyama mountain is also known as
a. the mountain of the 'abandoning aged'
b. the mountain of the 'abandoning children'
c. the mountain of the 'abandoning women'
d. the mountain of the 'abandoning men'
2. Who governed Shinano?
a. the aged mother
b. the farmers
c. a despotic leader
d. his neighbors
3. What was the cruel order of the leader?
a. all people need to go to Obatsuyama
b. to immeiately put to to death all aged people
c. the people must kill each other
d. the leader ordered nothing
4. What did Shinano do after hearing the order?
a. he killed his mother using his bare hands
b. he unfollowed the despotic leader
c. he killed himself instead
d. he considered the kindest mode of death for his mother
5. What did her mother do when they were in the puzzled paths of the mountain?
a.she was sleeping
b. she was crying
c. she stretched forth her hand and snapping the twigs from brushes as they passed
d. the aged mother was quiet​