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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ichiro try to be grown-up when he meets Ono in the park?
(a) He behaves calmly.
(b) He shakes hands instead of hugging him.
(c) He doesn't smile.
(d) He refuses to play.

2. Why does Ichiro refuse to help Noriko put away the breakfast things?
(a) He wants to stay with his mother.
(b) He says it's women's work.
(c) He wants to stay with his grandfather.
(d) He's playing a game.

3. What implication does Setsuko make in Noriko's kitchen that offends Ono?
(a) That Ono's child-rearing ideas had been too lax.
(b) That Ono's child-rearing ideas had been too strict.
(c) That Ono had ignored his wife's advice about child-rearing.
(d) That Ono's ideas had caused Kenji's death.

4. What does Ono promise the youngest Sugimura sister?
(a) That he would repair the war damage at the first opportunity.
(b) That he would build a room for her.
(c) That she could live with their family.
(d) That she could return to the house whenever she wanted.

5. What does Ono like about the garden?
(a) It is an elaborate labyrinth.
(b) It reflects many cultures.
(c) It is skillfully designed.
(d) It seems natural, not artificially designed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ono as a young boy dread his father's business meetings?

2. What does Ono promise Ichiro as a reward for drawing a picture?

3. What shows European influences on Moriyama?

4. What is always somewhere in a Moriyama painting?

5. What does the corporation offer Mrs. Kawakami?

(see the answer key)

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