Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Short Question Test Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Rashomon, In a Bamboo Grove, and The Nose

1. What is the Rashomon?

A gate.

2. What does the servant think he can do to survive?

Thievery.

3. Where does the servant spend the night?

The Rashomon.

4. What does the old woman pluck hairs from?

A corpse.

5. What does the old woman say she is gathering hair to make?

A wig.

6. What does the old woman say the dead woman try to sell snake meat as?

Fish.

7. Who makes the first testimony in the Bamboo Grove?

The woodcutter.

8. What did the woodcutter discover in the bamboo grove?

A dead body.

9. Who is the second testimony from?

A priest.

10. Who does the priest say the man looked like?

A warrior.

11. What was Tajomaru caught with?

A stolen horse and bow.

12. What does Kanazawa use to kill himself?

His wife's dagger.