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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 Moriyama respond to his students' comments about his painting?
(a) He corrected their errors.
(b) He explained his intentions.
(c) He listened, but did not respond.
(d) He expanded their points of view.

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

3. How does Ichiro try to be grown-up when he meets Ono in the park?
(a) He shakes hands instead of hugging him.
(b) He behaves calmly.
(c) He doesn't smile.
(d) He refuses to play.

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

5. How have the students behaved watching Moriyama paint?
(a) They asked him questions as he worked.
(b) They spoke as though he were not present.
(c) They told him they thought his painting was marvelous.
(d) They wrote critiques of each painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ono believe should give Matsuda and him satisfaction as they review their lives?

2. What is the common subject of Moriyama's paintings?

3. What does Ono tell Ichiro about why men drink sake?

4. Why does Ono admire Sugimura?

5. What is the "floating world"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why didn't Moriyama applaud his student's maturing talent as an artist?

3. What effect did Moriyama try to create in his paintings?

4. Why does Ono admire Sugimura's work on Kawabe Park, even though Sugimura failed to accomplish his goals?

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

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

7. How has Ichiro changed in the year since Ono last saw him?

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

9. How does Ono believe a teacher should regard his students diverging from his teachings?

10. How does Ono answer Ichiro's question about why men drink sake?

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