2. What does Uchida Kosaburo do for a living?
(a) He's a calligrapher.
(b) He's a poet.
(c) He's a choreographer.
(d) He's an artist.

3. In chapter 12 what does the narrator say she did NOT study?
(a) The art of woodblock printing.
(b) The art of calligraphy.
(c) The art of flower arranging.
(d) The art of Bunraku puppet theater.

4. What is mizuage?
(a) An eel.
(b) A geisha's virginity.
(c) A geisha's sexuality.
(d) A cave.

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

6. Who is Hatsumiyo?
(a) Mother's biological daughter.
(b) Mameha's older sister.
(c) Pumpkin.
(d) Hatsumomo's biological sister.

7. Around which year does the narrator say Chiyo arrives in Kyoto?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1950.

8. What does Mameha say generous people don't do?
(a) Become patrons of geisha.
(b) Become teahouse owners.
(c) Become okiya owners.
(d) Become geisha.

9. In talking with Mother, what excuse does Chiyo make up for her presence in the entrance hall during Mameha's visit?
(a) She says she was trying to remove the dust from the altar.
(b) She says she was trying to bring tea to Auntie.
(c) She says she was trying to fold Hatsumomo's obi.
(d) She says she was trying to buff a scratch out of the floorboards.

10. What happened the same month that Sayuri first met the Chairman?
(a) Iwamura Electric recruited Nobu.
(b) Nobu was injured in a bombing.
(c) Iwamura Electric celebrated its twentieth anniversary.
(d) The Chairman got married.

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

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

13. What does Hatsumomo's boyfriend do for a living?
(a) He is a businessman.
(b) He is a construction worker.
(c) He is a cook at a noodle house.
(d) He is a photographer.

14. Who did Mameha's older sister have an affair with?
(a) A baron.
(b) The Prime Minister.
(c) Mameha's husband.
(d) The Emperor.

15. Why is Sayuri worried that Mameha wants Nobu to become her danna?
(a) She is worried what Hatsumomo will think.
(b) It would ruin her chances of any relationship with the Chairman.
(c) She doesn't think she will ever have sufficient status to have a man like Nobu as a danna.
(d) She can't stand to look at his face.