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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ono say about the movie that insults Ichiro?
(a) The movie might be too scary for young children.
(b) He should stay home with the women.
(c) He should obey his mother.
(d) He is not strong enough to lift the table.

2. Why does Ono's father object to his becoming an artist?
(a) Art is useless in the world.
(b) Their wealth makes artists disrespectful of others.
(c) Artists are dishonest.
(d) Their poverty makes artists weak-willed and depraved.

3. What does Ono think about the return of the old floating world?
(a) It would be better if it returned.
(b) Ono will pray for its return.
(c) It may yet return.
(d) It is just as well that it will not return.

4. How does Setsuko make up to Ono for Noriko's excluding him from the outing?
(a) She cancels the trip to go to the cinema with him.
(b) She insists that he be invited to come along.
(c) She berates her sister for her rudeness.
(d) She decides to stay home with him.

5. What kind of customers frequented Migi-Hidari in the old days?
(a) Businessmen.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Lowlife thugs.
(d) Artists and writers.

6. Why does Ono's wife press him to find a better house?
(a) To improve her social standing.
(b) To shorten the walk to town.
(c) To improve his daughters' marriage prospects.
(d) To impress his son's high school friends.

7. What does Miyake think about the suicide of his company's president?
(a) It was a noble gesture that freed his employees from shame.
(b) It was a tragic waste.
(c) It was an embarrassment to the company.
(d) It brought shame to his employees.

8. What part of the house do Ono's daughters enjoy most?
(a) The long garden corridor.
(b) The reception room.
(c) The well-lighted kitchen.
(d) The veranda.

9. What position is Shintaro applying for?
(a) High school teacher.
(b) Comic book illustrator.
(c) Landscaper.
(d) Graphic artist.

10. What does Ono advise Mrs. Kawakami to do?
(a) Hold out for a higher offer.
(b) Accept the builders' offer to buy her place.
(c) Refuse to sell her place.
(d) Stand and fight for her place.

11. What quality does Ono say the arguments and banter of the old days always had?
(a) Duplicity.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Sincerity.

12. Which of the sisters is older?
(a) Noriko.
(b) Setsuko.
(c) We are not told.
(d) They are twins.

13. What is a miai?
(a) A business meeting.
(b) A formal meeting between the families of a prospective bride and groom.
(c) An engagement party.
(d) A wedding reception.

14. How does Ono convince his wife that an investigation for the sale of the house is not a problem?
(a) The investigation wouldn't take long.
(b) Records of any wrongdoing had been destroyed.
(c) Such investigations would be done for their daughters' marriage negotiations.
(d) The others had worse records than the Onos.

15. Why does Ono decide to watch Metsuo during the miai?
(a) He thinks Metsuo does not hide his feelings.
(b) Ono is worried that Metsuo was in love with Noriko.
(c) He wonders if Metsuo would make a good son-in-law.
(d) Metsuo is unusually handsome.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Taro react to Ono's confession?

2. How does the atmosphere of the miai change after Ono's confession?

3. According to Suichi, Ichiro's father, why does Ono quit painting?

4. What does Noriko say her father could not do without her?

5. How does Ono perceive Shintaro's nature now that his old friend no longer comes to Mrs. Kawakami's?

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