Beginning Japanese 名前: ________________________
Chapter 8 Listening Test 日付: ________________________

一、 Listen to the prompt and answer the following questions. You will hear each prompt once.

1. How is the dog described?
A. Both say it is scary.
B. One says scary, the other says cute.
C. Both say it is cute.
D. It is not a dog.

2. How is the sushi described?
A. cheap
B. expensive
C. delicious
D. bad tasting

3. How is the hamburger described?
A. cheap
B. expensive
C. delicious
D. bad tasting

4. What kind of cat is it?
A. small
B. big
C. cute
D. ugly

5. How is the ocean described?
A. loud and scary
B. quiet and beautiful
C. quiet but not pretty
D. loud but beautiful

6. How are the fathers described?
A. big
B. small
C. average sized
D. one is big and one is small

7. How are the older brothers described?
A. interesting
B. boring
C. out going
D. quiet

8. Ben is:
A. busy
B. not busy
C. happy
D. not happy

9. The dog is:
A. big
B. small
C. scary
D. not scary

10. Tomorrow the person will be:
A. busy
B. not busy
C. happy
D. not happy

11. How was the movie?
A. scary
B. boring
C. interesting
D. expensive

12. How was the book?
A. scary
B. boring
C. interesting
D. expensive

13. How was the person?
A. happy
B. strange
C. friendly
D. not well

14. How was the trip?
A. terrible
B. wonderful
C. expensive
D. cheap

15. How is the Japanese listening test described?
A. difficult
B. easy
C. fun
D. boring

16. How were the studentʼs science grades?
A. terrible
B. great
C. average
D. incomplete

17. Hanako thinks she is
A. not good looking at all.
B. not interesting at all.
C. not famous at all.
D. not skinny at all.

18. How was the concert?
A. very expensive
B. very cheap
C. not very good
D. not very crowded

19. How was the personʼs heart?
A. racing
B. broken
C. calm/at peace
D. NOT calm or at peace

20. The hat was
A. big
B. small
C. expensive
D. cheap

二、 Listen to the prompt and answer the following questions for numbers 21- 25. You will hear the prompt twice.

21. The ocean is
A. very beautiful and quiet
B. very rough and scary
C. very loud and scary
D. very beautiful but loud

22. The beach is
A. short and dirty
B. long and nice
C. long but dirty
D. short but nice

23. How is the sky (そら) described?
A. very blue
B. very dirty
C. very big
D. very cloudy

24. Amanohashidate is famous for
A. a story
B. rice
C. surfing
D. turtle viewing

25. This person describes the Urashima Taro story as
A. mysterious
B. scary
C. interesting
D. long

二、 Listen to the prompt and answer the following questions for numbers 26- 30. You will hear the prompt twice.

26. How does Kazuhiro describe the sushi restaurant he went to yesterday?
A. NOT tasty but very clean
B. very delicious but NOT clean
C. very delicious AND clean
D. NEITHER tasty nor clean

27. Did Kazuhiro eat strange sushi?
A. yes, he liked it
B. yes, but he did not like it
C. no
D. none of the sushi seemed weird

28. What did Kazuhiro say about the crab?
A. It was cheap
B. it was expensive
C. it was delicious
D. it tasted bad

29. What else does Kazuhiro say about the restaurant?
A. the staff was energetic, but it was a little expensive
B. the staff was friendly and it was cheap
C. it was cheap and interesting
D. the staff was not friendly and it was expensive

30. What does Kazuhiro want to do tonight?
A. go back to the same restaurant
B. go to another sushi restaurant
C. go to a restaurant without sushi
D. learn how to make sushi