View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time in the morning is it when Komako enters Shimamura's room "dead drunk"?
(a) Three o'clock.
(b) Six o'clock.
(c) One o'clock.
(d) Four o'clock.

2. What skill does Komako tell Shimamura she has one night?
(a) Kite-flying.
(b) Drawing.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Sewing.

3. What song do children sing during the February festival?
(a) A song about snow flakes.
(b) The dancing dragon song.
(c) The bird chasing song.
(d) "Bright new year"

4. How many geisha serve the thirty guests of the party that Komako works at?
(a) Three.
(b) Ten.
(c) Six.
(d) Fifteen.

5. What does Komako say is the only accomplishment she has had since last seeing Shimamura?
(a) Earning her geisha licence.
(b) Writing a story.
(c) Quitting drinking.
(d) Quitting smoking.

6. What do children build out of snow during the February festival?
(a) A snow palace.
(b) People.
(c) Birds.
(d) Dragons.

7. What does Komako say repeatedly when she and Shimamura return to his room after their night out?
(a) That she doesn't want Shimamura to go back to Tokyo.
(b) That she loves Shimamura.
(c) That she doesn't feel well.
(d) That she is going home

8. How many times has Komako visited Yukio's grave?
(a) Twelve times.
(b) Only once.
(c) Three or four times.
(d) Never.

9. While in his room, whose voice does Shimamura hear calling to Komako from the hallway?
(a) The innkeeper's.
(b) Yoko's.
(c) A maid's.
(d) The music teacher's.

10. What does Komako call home to have delivered?
(a) Her makeup.
(b) An instrument.
(c) A fresh kimono.
(d) Her diary.

11. What creature(s) does Shimamura's wife refer to in her warning about the season?
(a) Rats.
(b) Forest spirits.
(c) A Dragon.
(d) Moths.

12. Where does Shimamura learn that Yoko is working?
(a) At the hospital.
(b) At the inn.
(c) At a geisha house.
(d) At the candy shop.

13. What is the weather like outside the night before Shimamura is to return to Tokyo?
(a) It is very cold outside.
(b) It is snowing outside.
(c) It is raining outside.
(d) It is quite warm outside.

14. What obstacle can the drunken Komako not believe she surpassed on her own to reach Shimamura's room?
(a) The dark hallway.
(b) The hill to the inn.
(c) A locked gate.
(d) A rickety bridge.

15. Who has died since Shimamura last left the resort town?
(a) The innkeeper's daughter.
(b) Yukio and the music teacher.
(c) The blind masseuse.
(d) Yukio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yoko tell Shimamura she feels about Komako?

2. At the festival at night, what does Shimamura say is different in the resort town than in Tokyo?

3. What does Komako say she will not do with Shimamura again?

4. What are Komako's feelings about visiting the cemetery?

5. What does Komako insist she and Shimamura do the night before he is to return to Tokyo?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 496 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample