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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ono tell Ichiro about why men drink sake?
(a) For a little while, they can believe they're stronger.
(b) It makes a man stronger.
(c) It separates strong men from weak women.
(d) It helps men see the beauty of the floating world.

2. Why does Ono admire Sugimura?
(a) He aspired to rise above mediocrity.
(b) He was a skilled landscape designer.
(c) He aspired to make a fortune.
(d) He aspired to fame.

3. What does Matsuda's neighbor boy do each day?
(a) He climbs a tree to watch Matsuda feed the fish.
(b) He comes to visit.
(c) He climbs up on the wall between the houses.
(d) He feeds the fish.

4. How was Moriyama supporting himself after his painting was devalued and his school closed?
(a) Painting patriotic posters.
(b) Painting advertisements.
(c) Painting houses.
(d) Painting magazine illustrations.

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

6. What is Ichiro's favorite food now that he is eight-years-old?
(a) Shrimp with rice.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Spinach.

7. What is always somewhere in a Moriyama painting?
(a) A lotus.
(b) A teapot.
(c) A lantern.
(d) A mountain.

8. What does Ono say during lunch that frightens Ichiro?
(a) That he had the same problems Naguchi had.
(b) That he is not like Naguchi.
(c) That he is like Naguchi.
(d) That he disapproves of Naguchi's solution.

9. Why does Matsuda think the two men should not blame themselves for their earlier actions?
(a) Their actions had produced good results.
(b) They acted on their beliefs and did their utmost.
(c) They were fooled by charlatans.
(d) They were too young to understand forces around them.

10. What does Ono mean when he talks of the art students "slanging" one another?
(a) They wrote unpleasant critiques of one another's work.
(b) They shouted good-humored insults across the yard.
(c) They destroyed each other's paintings.
(d) They wrote slurs about one another.

11. What does Matsuda say the world sees when they look at Ono and Matsuda now that the war is behind them?
(a) Two old men with sticks.
(b) Two instigators of a war.
(c) Two failed imperialists.
(d) Two traitors to their country.

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

13. Why had Moriyama been happy with his work looking back on it as an old man?
(a) He had devoted his life to repudiating debauchery.
(b) He had devoted his life to nurturing young talent.
(c) He had devoted his life to capturing a unique beauty.
(d) He had devoted his life to changing with modernizing trends.

14. What does the visiting Gisaburo say about nights in the floating world?
(a) All artists seek the light of day.
(b) Only drunkards find value in that which fades in the morning.
(c) The best things are put together at night and vanish in the morning.
(d) The worst things happen in the darkness.

15. Why does Ono introduce Kenji into the conversation in Noriko's kitchen?
(a) His son, had he been present, would have taken his side.
(b) He had argued with his wife about giving Kenji sake at the same age.
(c) He feels outnumbered by women.
(d) He suddenly recalls his son's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Setsuko think Saito felt about Ono?

2. Who does Matsuda claim has been blamed for Japan's downfall?

3. How does Matsuda describe the contribution he and Ono made?

4. What is the common subject of Moriyama's paintings?

5. How does Sugimura plan to leave his mark on the city forever?

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