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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 53-69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Shonagon say a well-bred young man should never do when visiting a woman of lower rank?
(a) Call out her name.
(b) Give her gifts.
(c) Let anyone see him.
(d) Kiss her.

2. What was the five-year-old boy that Shonagon saw while traveling her carriage one day holding?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A bucket.
(c) A bow and stick.
(d) Flowers.

3. Who did most people consider as "unimportant as a piece of wood?"
(a) A fishwife.
(b) A courtier.
(c) A priest.
(d) A gardener.

4. What color was the lute Shonagon saw the Empress holding in the section called "A Group of Senior Courtiers?"
(a) Black.
(b) Silver.
(c) Red.
(d) Brown.

5. What plant did Shonagon think made an "uncommonly pretty" design on figured silk?
(a) Wood-sorrel.
(b) Sweet rush.
(c) Stonecrop.
(d) Water-plantain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came out of the house to inquire whether or not "Lord So-and-so's" attendants had arrived yet in the section titled "Once When I Was Passing?"

2. How did Shonagon say the sky should appear on the fifth day of the Fifth Month?

3. What tree did people regard as the tree of the Divine Presence?

4. What was wrong with the appearance of the escorts that Shonagon saw while visiting the palace to see the horses on the first day of the First Month?

5. What was the weather like in the Seventh Month?

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