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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three: Pages 329 through 379.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what did MM's prayer offerings consist?
(a) Her family wealth.
(b) Poems.
(c) Her anger.
(d) Prose.

2. Why was MM unable to prepare Fujiwara's mourning clothes?
(a) The attendants in charge of that were gone.
(b) MM was too ill.
(c) MM was on a pilgrimage.
(d) Fujiwara had gained too much weight for MM to accurately measure him.

3. What kept MM from committing suicide after her husband's rebuke about her depression in Book Two?
(a) Her religious duties.
(b) Her fears of the after life.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her pride.

4. Who became notably absent from MM's life after she moved in with her father?
(a) The Prince.
(b) Michitsuna.
(c) Fujiwara.
(d) Her daughter.

5. How did MM upset the director?
(a) She did not respond to his letter quickly enough.
(b) She had him arrested.
(c) She ignored him in the street.
(d) She decried him as common.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Michitsuna intent on finding his father after the fire?

2. Why was MM concerned that her prayers would not be answered?

3. Why did MM's attendants burn poppy seeds?

4. How did MM ultimately begin to warm up to the director?

5. What words did MM's child begin to repeat after hearing his father say it repeatedly?

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