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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the new apartment buildings under construction look to Ono?
(a) They are ugly and too modern.
(b) They are beautiful.
(c) They are a sign of progress.
(d) They could be mistaken for bombed ruins.

2. How does Noriko persuade Ichiro to help her clear away the breakfast things?
(a) By threatening to send him to his room.
(b) By telling him she will give him a treat.
(c) By threatening him with a time out.
(d) By telling him she's not strong enough to put the table away.

3. Why does Ono's father object to his becoming an artist?
(a) Their poverty makes artists weak-willed and depraved.
(b) Artists are dishonest.
(c) Their wealth makes artists disrespectful of others.
(d) Art is useless in the world.

4. What does Ono hope his own students will do?
(a) Conceal their relationship to Ono.
(b) Forget Ono's part in the war.
(c) Remain grateful to Ono for what they learned.
(d) Forget they ever knew Ono.

5. How does Ono react when he learns that Mitsuo attends school where Kuroda teaches?
(a) He assures them that Kuroda would speak well of him.
(b) He denies ever knowing Kuroda.
(c) He says that Kuroda would not have a high opinion of him.
(d) He praises Kuroda's work.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Setsuko characterize Ichiro?

2. Why does Shintaro not join Ono's other pupils at their reserved table in Migi-Hidari?

3. Why does Ono's wife object to being investigated to get the house?

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

5. What phrase does Ono tell his pupils that is similar to what Moriyama has said?

(see the answer key)

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