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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 Ono like best about the house?
(a) It suffered no damage during the war.
(b) It is conducive to relaxation and calm.
(c) It is visually exciting.
(d) It is prestigious.

2. How does Taro Saito feel about the demonstrations in the streets?
(a) They've gone too far.
(b) It is a great pity that people are being injured.
(c) They're an important expression of freedom of speech.
(d) The Japanese are children learning democracy.

3. How does the atmosphere of the miai change after Ono's confession?
(a) It is an embarrassing disaster.
(b) It is relaxed, no longer awkward.
(c) It is awkward, no longer relaxed.
(d) It is boring, so everyone leaves early.

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

5. Why doesn't Ono share his feelings about the old pleasure district with Mrs. Kawakami?
(a) Ono knows she is relieved to be through with the old days.
(b) It would be tactless because the old days are dear to her.
(c) Ono knows she doesn't wish for the old days.
(d) Ono knows she's too old to rebuild.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Setsuko make up to Ono for Noriko's excluding him from the outing?

2. Who does Ono think Ichiro is pretending to be when the boy imagines himself on horseback?

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

4. What has changed in the city between 1948 and 1949?

5. What does Ono advise Mrs. Kawakami to do with the profit from selling her bar?

(see the answer key)

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