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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. What does Ono mean when he talks of the art students "slanging" one another?
(a) They wrote slurs about one another.
(b) They shouted good-humored insults across the yard.
(c) They wrote unpleasant critiques of one another's work.
(d) They destroyed each other's paintings.

2. Why does Matsuda envy Ono?
(a) Ono's work is more admired.
(b) Ono is more handsome.
(c) Ono has better health.
(d) Ono is wealthier.

3. What news does Ono give Matsuda about himself?
(a) He has taken up horticulture.
(b) He has stopped painting.
(c) He is considering marriage again.
(d) He has started painting again.

4. What does Matsuda say the smell of burning means now that the war is over?
(a) A neighbor is clearing his garden.
(b) Someone is barbecuing.
(c) A house is burning.
(d) Bombs are falling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What qualities does Ono claim he shared with Matsuda when they were younger?

2. Why does Ono admire Sugimura?

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

4. What does Ono say during his last conversation with Matsuda about his present-day perspective on life?

5. What traits does Ono observe that Ichiro has inherited from his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Moriyama's students never comment directly to him about his paintings?

2. What does Matsuda believe was his and Ono's great misfortune?

3. How does Ono console himself that he did not visit his old friend as often as he had intended to?

4. Why does Ono approve of his teacher's distancing himself from his students' discussions?

5. When does Ono achieve his greatest feeling of triumph?

6. Years ago, Matsuda had accused Ono of having a narrow artist's perspective. What does Ono say about his perspective now that he is retired?

7. Ono recalls the influence of Moriyama on his own behavior. What does he say he adopted from his teacher?

8. What does Ono say the New Japan proved about him and about Matsuda?

9. How does Matsuda console himself when thinking of his actions during the war?

10. What happened to Moriyama's best student, Sasaki?

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