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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ono believe should give Matsuda and him satisfaction as they review their lives?
(a) They followed honorable leaders.
(b) They acted in the best of faith.
(c) They supported a just cause.
(d) They were too young to be accountable.

2. What does Ono believe is more shameful than one's past mistakes?
(a) Continuing to make the same mistakes.
(b) Failing to learn from them.
(c) Being unable or unwilling to acknowledge them.
(d) Encouraging others to commit the same mistakes.

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

4. What does Ono promise to do to help Mrs. Kawakami?
(a) Paint advertising posters for her new bar.
(b) Loan her money.
(c) Visit her new bar when it's built.
(d) Bring all his friends to her bar.

5. What is the "floating world"?
(a) The world of nighttime entertainment and drink.
(b) The changing political landscape of Japan.
(c) The life of beachcombers and fishermen.
(d) The water lilies in the palace courtyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matsuda say the world sees when they look at Ono and Matsuda now that the war is behind them?

2. Why does Ono believe that the Tortoise or Shintaro will never feel the sort of happiness he felt sitting on the hillside?

3. Why is Setsuko uncomfortable with Noriko's talk about Ono?

4. What does Ono say in Noriko's kitchen that upsets Noriko and Setsuko?

5. Who does Matsuda claim has been blamed for Japan's downfall?

(see the answer key)

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