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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ono believe is more shameful than one's past mistakes?
(a) Failing to learn from them.
(b) Encouraging others to commit the same mistakes.
(c) Continuing to make the same mistakes.
(d) Being unable or unwilling to acknowledge them.

2. Why does Ono's wife press him to find a better house?
(a) To improve her social standing.
(b) To impress his son's high school friends.
(c) To shorten the walk to town.
(d) To improve his daughters' marriage prospects.

3. What does Noriko like about her apartment?
(a) It is very traditional.
(b) It has a spectacular view of the city.
(c) It is Western and modern.
(d) It is spacious.

4. According to Suichi, Ichiro's father, why does Ono quit painting?
(a) Because Japan lost the war.
(b) Because he lost interest in art.
(c) Because he has lost his skill.
(d) Because he is too old.

5. Why had Moriyama been happy with his work looking back on it as an old man?
(a) He had devoted his life to capturing a unique beauty.
(b) He had devoted his life to nurturing young talent.
(c) He had devoted his life to changing with modernizing trends.
(d) He had devoted his life to repudiating debauchery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kuroda's student, Enchi, change his attitude during Ono's visit?

2. What does Ono like about the garden?

3. How does Noriko's behavior change during the miai?

4. How did Noriko upset Setsuko when they were children?

5. What remains of Sugimura's planned Kawabe Park?

(see the answer key)

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