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

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

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

4. Who dies in June, 1950?
(a) Shintaro.
(b) Ono.
(c) Kuroda.
(d) Matsuda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Noriko like about her apartment?

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

3. How long after their initial reconnection had Ono visited his old friend?

4. How does Setsuko think Saito felt about Ono?

5. What goal had Ono and Matsuda shared in the old days?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Matsuda say the smell of burning most likely means now that the war is long over?

7. Why does the smell of burning still make Ono uneasy while he is relaxing in Matsuda's garden?

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

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

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

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