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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of customers frequented Migi-Hidari in the old days?
(a) Tourists.
(b) Lowlife thugs.
(c) Businessmen.
(d) Artists and writers.

3. Why does Shintaro not join Ono's other pupils at their reserved table in Migi-Hidari?
(a) There were too many of them.
(b) He was too poor.
(c) They were jealous of his friendship with Ono.
(d) He was not regarded as first rank.

4. How does Shintaro embarrass Mrs. Kawakami?
(a) By joking too loudly.
(b) By expressing admiration for a war criminal.
(c) By changing his painting style.
(d) By drinking too much.

5. According to rumor, how did Sugimura assemble his garden?
(a) He bought plants fully grown from others' gardens.
(b) He sent for plants from abroad.
(c) He grew his plants from sprouts.
(d) He grew his plants from seeds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ono like best about the house?

2. Which room does Ono say is the most important room in the house?

3. How does Noriko say Ono has behaved since his retirement?

4. Who is Ichiro actually pretending to be when he imagines himself on horseback?

5. On what basis do the Sugimura sisters select a buyer for their house?

(see the answer key)

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