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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Ichiro actually pretending to be when he imagines himself on horseback?
(a) A samurai warrior.
(b) The Ninja of the wind.
(c) The Lone Ranger.
(d) Roy Rogers.

3. What does Mrs. Kawakami call the pleasure district since the war?
(a) A desert.
(b) A graveyard.
(c) A ghetto.
(d) A boomtown.

4. How does Ichiro respond to Setsuko's requests for him to settle down?
(a) He laughs at her.
(b) He kisses her.
(c) He obeys her.
(d) He ignores her.

5. Why does Moriyama declare himself unsatisfied with his early work?
(a) He had been unable to capture the essence of the floating world.
(b) He had been caught in the pleasures of the floating world.
(c) He had felt guilty about the pleasures of the floating world.
(d) He had been unskilled about the floating world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Shintaro want to disclaim?

2. How does Ono convince his wife that an investigation for the sale of the house is not a problem?

3. Why was Shintaro not initially called up for military service?

4. What does Noriko say her father could not do without her?

5. How does Mrs. Kawakami's bar seem to Ono while the construction is under way?

(see the answer key)

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