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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 Kuroda explain to Ono while they sit around the table in Migi-Hidari?
(a) That Ono was not the painter he used to be.
(b) That Ono did not appreciate his students' progress.
(c) That Ono was not keeping up with changing times.
(d) That Ono was unaware of his own great reputation.

2. Why does Ono's wife object to being investigated to get the house?
(a) She thought it would interfere with her daughters' marriage chances.
(b) She thought it would cost them money.
(c) She thought the sellers had no right to check on them.
(d) She thought her secret would be discovered.

3. Why does Ono admire Sugimura?
(a) He was a skilled landscape designer.
(b) He aspired to make a fortune.
(c) He aspired to fame.
(d) He aspired to rise above mediocrity.

4. Why isn't Ono able to understand Ichiro's imaginary talk?
(a) Ichiro was speaking English.
(b) Ichiro mumbled.
(c) Ichiro was speaking German.
(d) Ichiro invented his own language.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ono like about the garden?

2. What does Ono hope his own students will do?

3. What does Shintaro want to disclaim?

4. How does Ono perceive Shintaro's nature now that his old friend no longer comes to Mrs. Kawakami's?

5. What does Ono's father do with his paintings?

(see the answer key)

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