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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Pumpkin react to Mameha's visit?
(a) She is eager to meet Mameha.
(b) She is angry because she knows Mameha is Hatsumomo's rival.
(c) She is the only one in the okiya not interested in Mameha's visit.
(d) She feels sorry for Chiyo because she thinks Chiyo is in trouble.

2. Why does Chiyo say Hatsumomo is "like an empress" in the okiya?
(a) She is a tyrant.
(b) She earns the income for the whole house.
(c) She is the most beautiful woman in the house.
(d) She has the most power.

3. What does Chiyo say regularly complicates the task of doing her chores?
(a) Her hunger.
(b) Pumpkin.
(c) Sitting with Granny.
(d) Her need to cry.

4. Which element does Chiyo's mother have too much of in her personality?
(a) Water.
(b) Wood.
(c) Fire.
(d) Earth.

5. What happens to a geisha who marries?
(a) They become legends.
(b) Nothing, since geisha cannot marry.
(c) She is disgraced.
(d) She no longer continues as a geisha.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Auntie say will end up in a jorou-ya if she ever gets what she deserves?

2. What does Chiyo break by falling off the roof?

3. What does Mr. Tanaka deliver to Chiyo for her mother at the beginning of chapter 2?

4. What does Hatsumomo make sure Pumpkin and Chiyo never do again?

5. What did Awajiumi do for a living before he began working at the Gion Registry Office?

(see the answer key)

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