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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Shonagon feel about women who lived at home and cared for their husbands?
2. Where did the Empress' residence lie in relationship to Seiryo Palace?
3. What shade of plum blossom brought Shonagon the most pleasure?
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. Who asked Narimasa to arrange a meeting with Shonagon about the small gate?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Shonagon say that there was nothing worse than a poorly dressed ox carriage driver?
2. Why did the Emperor walk toward the Empress' building while playing his flute?
3. The herbal balls hung on the pillars of the Empress' palace during the Festival of the Fifth Month were supposed to last until the next Chrysanthemum Festival. Why didn't they last until then?
4. Why were Shonagon and the other women disgusted by the response of some of the servants who were carrying attractively wrapped bundles and bags when the women asked them who the packages belonged to?
5. Why did Shonagon offer a gardener a reward to see to it that the snow mountain did not melt until after the fifteenth of the First Month?
6. Why did the women laugh at the paintings on the sliding screen in Seiryo Palace?
7. Why did Shonagon say that young herbs peeking through the snow were unexpected near the Palace?
8. Why did the women hit one another with gruel sticks?
9. Why did Tsunefusa begin calling Shonagon Grass Hut?
10. Why did Shonagon and the other women often have to stay away from the Palace?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe life in the women's apartments. What were the apartments like and why did Shonagon enjoy living there?
Essay Topic 2
Midway through the book we see a shift in Shonagon's writing style to a more developed style of prose. Describe the shift. What changes in her writing style? What does it reveal about Shonagon?
Essay Topic 3
How did Shonagon treat men differently from women? What did she say about each? Whom does she compliment? What might account for the differences in the way she treated men and women?
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