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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

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 feels sorry for Chiyo because she thinks Chiyo is in trouble.
(d) She is the only one in the okiya not interested in Mameha's visit.

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

3. What does Hatsumomo say her paulownia wood is for?
(a) For holding up her hair.
(b) For decorating her Noh mask.
(c) For tying her obi.
(d) For drawing her eyebrows.

4. How does Hatsumomo manage to show up at every party Mameha and Sayuri are at?
(a) She has bribed Auntie to inform her of Sayuri's schedule.
(b) She has bribed Pumpkin to find out about Sayuri's nightly engagements.
(c) She has bribed Mameha's maid to inform her of Mameha's schedule.
(d) She has bribed the maids in every teahouse to tell her when the two arrive.

5. What did Awajiumi do for a living before he began working at the Gion Registry Office?
(a) He was a geisha dresser.
(b) He was a farmer.
(c) He was a fish merchant.
(d) He was a sumo wrestler.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sayuri say the young actor she met at the party died a few years after they met?

2. Which element does Chiyo's mother have too much of in her personality?

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

4. What does the Baron make Mameha remove from its place in her apartment?

5. What are "zori"?

(see the answer key)

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