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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the art students treat Sasaki when he changes his style?
(a) They hid his paintings and refused to speak to him.
(b) They burned his work in the courtyard.
(c) They gave him a goodbye party and sent him away.
(d) They criticized him in public.

3. Why does Ono quit painting for such a long time?
(a) He was disillusioned.
(b) He felt he was untalented.
(c) He had lost his touch.
(d) He had been forbidden to paint.

4. What kind of mistakes does Ono believe are not shameful?
(a) Those made in good faith.
(b) Those made in ignorance.
(c) Those made in youth.
(d) Those made against one's will.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Noriko's behavior change during the miai?

2. What does Ono like about the garden?

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

4. What news does Ono give Matsuda about Setsuko?

5. Why does Ono admire Sugimura?

(see the answer key)

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