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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ono feel was missing the night he won the award?
(a) A feeling of triumph and fulfillment.
(b) His family.
(c) International recognition.
(d) Kuroda's approval.

2. How does Ono feel about the future of Japan?
(a) There is a chance to make a better go of things.
(b) The best times are behind them.
(c) Their world is permanently ruined.
(d) The destruction will never be forgotten.

3. Why does Ono come to admire Moriyama's treatment of his students?
(a) Ono believes students often know more than their teachers.
(b) Ono believes students' comments are mere flattery.
(c) Ono believes it is foolish to waste time discussing each comment.
(d) Ono believes it is important for students to develop their own thinking.

4. When he learns there will be sake at dinner, what makes Ichiro laugh?
(a) His grandfather Ono might get drunk.
(b) Ichiro might get drunk.
(c) His aunt Noriko might get drunk.
(d) His father might get drunk.

5. Why does the Tortoise often destroy his own paintings?
(a) Because Sasaki, the leading pupil, called them "disloyal".
(b) Because he could never satisfy his own plan.
(c) Because Moriyama did not like them.
(d) Because Ono did not like them.

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

7. What is found where Mrs. Kawakami's and the Migi-Hidari once stood?
(a) A bank and a theater.
(b) An office building and a parking lot.
(c) A theater and a restaurant.
(d) A restaurant and an office building.

8. What had Ono completed the same week he received the award?
(a) A commissioned portrait.
(b) The New Japan campaign.
(c) His paintings of fire engines.
(d) His floating world water colors.

9. What does the visiting Gisaburo say about nights in the floating world?
(a) The worst things happen in the darkness.
(b) The best things are put together at night and vanish in the morning.
(c) All artists seek the light of day.
(d) Only drunkards find value in that which fades in the morning.

10. Which of Sugimura's plans does Ono believe is "eccentric"?
(a) A European style concert hall.
(b) A new kabuki theater.
(c) A cemetery for cats and dogs.
(d) A museum of natural science.

11. What kindness does Matsuda perform for Ono?
(a) Flowers sent during Ono's illness.
(b) Matsuda loaned Ono money.
(c) A letter of encouragement during Ono's illness.
(d) Matsuda recommended Ono to an art dealer.

12. What implication does Setsuko make in Noriko's kitchen that offends Ono?
(a) That Ono's child-rearing ideas had been too lax.
(b) That Ono had ignored his wife's advice about child-rearing.
(c) That Ono's child-rearing ideas had been too strict.
(d) That Ono's ideas had caused Kenji's death.

13. How long before learning of his death had Ono visited his old friend?
(a) A day.
(b) A week.
(c) A month.
(d) A year.

14. What does Matsuda's neighbor boy do each day?
(a) He climbs a tree to watch Matsuda feed the fish.
(b) He feeds the fish.
(c) He comes to visit.
(d) He climbs up on the wall between the houses.

15. What is the common subject of Moriyama's paintings?
(a) Children.
(b) The sea.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Matsuda say he never married?

2. What famous Japanese artist does Moriyama emulate?

3. How have the students behaved watching Moriyama paint?

4. What remains of Sugimura's planned Kawabe Park?

5. How does Ichiro try to be grown-up when he meets Ono in the park?

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