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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Matsuda say about his own present-day perspective on life during his last conversation with Ono?
(a) It doesn't extend much beyond his own garden.
(b) It is broader than Ono's perspective.
(c) It is national and patriotic.
(d) It is global.

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

3. What honor had Ono received in 1938?
(a) A statue in his honor in the city park.
(b) The Nobel Prize.
(c) A commission from the emperor.
(d) The Shigeta Foundation Award.

4. When does Ono feel the sense of triumph he had hoped for?
(a) Sitting on a hill all alone, eating oranges.
(b) When his family gave him a surprise party.
(c) Receiving the praise of his students.
(d) Confronting Moriyama at his villa.

5. What had Ono completed the same week he received the award?
(a) His paintings of fire engines.
(b) The New Japan campaign.
(c) A commissioned portrait.
(d) His floating world water colors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ono come to admire Moriyama's treatment of his students?

2. What shows European influences on Moriyama?

3. What did Ono feel was missing the night he won the award?

4. Which of Sugimura's plans does Ono believe is "eccentric"?

5. What is Ichiro's favorite food now that he is eight-years-old?

Short Essay Questions

1. What European influences distinguished Moriyama's work from Utamaro's?

2. What do we learn about Setsuko from Ono's conversation with Matsuda?

3. What does Ono say the New Japan proved about him and about Matsuda?

4. Years ago, Matsuda had accused Ono of having a narrow artist's perspective. What does Ono say about his perspective now that he is retired?

5. What has changed since 1948 in regards to Ono's painting?

6. How does Ono console himself that he did not visit his old friend as often as he had intended to?

7. Why did Moriyama's students never comment directly to him about his paintings?

8. How does Matsuda console himself when thinking of his actions during the war?

9. What does Matsuda believe was his and Ono's great misfortune?

10. How does Ono explain Naguchi's suicide to Ichiro?

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