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

2. What causes Ono's great sense of triumph?
(a) The belief that Moriyama would be proud of him.
(b) The belief that he had outlasted his enemies.
(c) The belief that he had accomplished something of real value.
(d) The belief that his work was much admired.

3. What does Ono say in Noriko's kitchen that upsets Noriko and Setsuko?
(a) That Ichiro should wait a few years for sake.
(b) That Ichiro should have a taste of sake with dinner.
(c) That Ichiro should never drink sake.
(d) That Ichiro should be taught better manners.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Matsuda describe the contribution he and Ono made?

2. Which of Sugimura's plans does Ono believe is "eccentric"?

3. How often does Ono visit Matsuda after re-establishing contact with him?

4. How long before learning of his death had Ono visited his old friend?

5. Why is Ono surprised at Setsuko's view of Noriko's marriage negotiation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Matsuda say he never married?

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

4. Why is Ono irritated at Setsuko's insistence that Saito never heard of Ono until the miai?

5. What does Matsuda say about his own perspective now that he is old and ill?

6. The reader learns some news about Noriko at the same time Matsuda does. What is the news?

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

8. What has changed since 1948 in regards to Ono's painting?

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

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

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