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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What's wrong with the kimono Mameha wants Sayuri to put on near the beginning of chapter 18?
(a) It's faded.
(b) It's torn.
(c) It has ink spilled on it.
(d) It's too small.

2. What does Mameha tell her maid to do with Chiyo when she sees her the first time after a long absence?
(a) Give her some proper shoes.
(b) Fix her hair.
(c) Put her in a kimono.
(d) Give her a bath.

3. What color do Mameha and her maid agree that Chiyo's eyes are on their visit to pay their respects to Granny?
(a) Ink.
(b) Charcoal.
(c) Blue grey.
(d) Grey.

4. What is the pillow a geisha uses to protect her hairstyle filled with?
(a) Rice.
(b) Barley hulls.
(c) Barley.
(d) Wheat chaff.

5. What are "zori"?
(a) Pants.
(b) Fish.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Boats.

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

7. What does the Baron make Mameha remove from its place in her apartment?
(a) A painting of a landscape.
(b) A rare ceramic vase.
(c) Her dressing mirror.
(d) A poem by Matsudaira Koichi.

8. What does Chiyo compare life to at the beginning of chapter 9 to make her point about change?
(a) The ocean.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A cherry blossom.
(d) A river.

9. How much does Mother first offer Mameha on top of her usual fee for her services of being an older sister if Chiyo pays off her debts by twenty?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) 60 percent.
(d) 30 percent.

10. What does Sayuri say she felt happened to Chiyo?
(a) Mameha had destroyed her.
(b) Gion had destroyed her.
(c) Sayuri had destroyed her.
(d) Hatsumomo had destroyed her.

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

12. What is the cause of Granny's death?
(a) A space heater.
(b) A bad fall.
(c) A fire.
(d) A bee sting.

13. What is a momoware?
(a) A hairpin.
(b) An apprentice geisha's hairstyle.
(c) A type of peach.
(d) A kind of kimono.

14. Why does Hatsumomo say Mameha is trying to drive her out of Gion?
(a) Because Mameha has always hated Hatsumomo.
(b) Because Mameha is vengeful in character.
(c) Because Mameha has never liked Mother.
(d) Because Hatsumomo is more beautiful.

15. 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 bring tea to Auntie.
(b) She says she was trying to fold Hatsumomo's obi.
(c) She says she was trying to remove the dust from the altar.
(d) She says she was trying to buff a scratch out of the floorboards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hatsumiyo?

2. Why does Mameha say Hatsumomo is trying to make Pumpkin look good?

3. What happened the same month that Sayuri first met the Chairman?

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

5. What does Sayuri compare her encounter with the Chairman to at the beginning of chapter 19?

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