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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chiyo think she's seen in the maids' room when she returns to the okiya in chapter 7?
(a) A cat.
(b) A rat.
(c) Pumpkin.
(d) Hatsumomo.

2. What does Mr. Tanaka deliver to Chiyo for her mother at the beginning of chapter 2?
(a) Tea.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Fish.
(d) Chinese herbs.

3. How does Hatsumomo paint her lips?
(a) She paints a circle shape.
(b) She paints just the lower lip.
(c) She paints a pouty expression on the lower lip and the full shape of the upper lip.
(d) She paints the full shape of both of the lips.

4. Whose graves does Chiyo see in the graveyard?
(a) Her father's first family's graves.
(b) Her siblings' graves.
(c) Her grandparents' graves.
(d) Her neighbors' graves.

5. What did Chiyo hide under the house's foundation that she finds again in chapter 9?
(a) A coin.
(b) A moth.
(c) A hairpin.
(d) A tree branch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the cause of Granny's death?

2. Why does Pumpkin have so much trouble in music class?

3. Who did Mameha's older sister have an affair with?

4. What happens to a geisha who marries?

5. Who announces Mameha's visit to Mother at the beginning of chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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