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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ono describe Noriko and Setsuko?
(a) Noriko is headstrong; Setsuko is shy and retiring.
(b) Noriko is shy and retiring; Setsuko is headstrong.
(c) Both girls are headstrong and stubborn.
(d) Both girls are shy and retiring.

2. Why does Ono's wife press him to find a better house?
(a) To improve his daughters' marriage prospects.
(b) To shorten the walk to town.
(c) To impress his son's high school friends.
(d) To improve her social standing.

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

4. What quality does Ono say the arguments and banter of the old days always had?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Duplicity.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Sincerity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ono believe the Miyakes withdrew their offer of marriage?

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

3. What does Ono think about the spirit of the old floating world?

4. How does the atmosphere of the miai change after Ono's confession?

5. What is going in on both sides of Mrs. Kawakami's establishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Migi-Hidari show its loyalty to the emperor?

2. Ono says that he would not have made his admission of guilt at the miai had he not felt compelled to do so. What social situation compelled him?

3. Why does Suichi become angry at Kenji's funeral ceremony?

4. How does Saito regard the demonstrations in the streets?

5. What does Shintaro ask Ono to do for him?

6. What is surprising about Noriko's comments to Setsuko about Ono?

7. What is the likely reason for Miyake's sudden withdrawal from the marriage negotiations?

8. Why does Enchi treat Ono in such a friendly way when he arrives to visit Kuroda?

9. What does Noriko accuse Ono of when he is working in the garden?

10. How does Mr. Yamagata thank Ono for his support of the Migi-Hidari?

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