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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 60 percent.
(b) 30 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

2. What does Mother tell Chiyo that Granny spends her whole day doing?
(a) Thinking of ways to hurt Hatsumomo.
(b) Thinking of ways to help Hatsumomo.
(c) Daydreaming.
(d) Wasting time.

3. Sayuri compares Hatsumomo's beauty to that of an object someone had shown her some years after the story took place. What was the object?
(a) A sword.
(b) A whip.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A spur.

4. What does Sayuri do when Hatsumomo arrives at the Ichiriki and finds her entertaining the Chairman alone?
(a) She acts bored.
(b) She spends all her time talking about Nobu.
(c) She leaves immediately.
(d) She lets Hatsumomo do all the entertaining.

5. What does Pumpkin leave the okiya to get for Hatsumomo in chapter 20?
(a) Noodles.
(b) Hairpins she loaned to Korin.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) A shamisen.

6. Who is waiting at Mameha's apartment for Sayuri when she arrives at the end of chapter 15?
(a) Mr. Itchoda.
(b) Yoko.
(c) Mr. Bekku.
(d) Mr. Tanaka.

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

8. Why does Mother say Chiyo should be punished for ruining Mameha's kimono?
(a) Chiyo was holding the brush.
(b) Chiyo has hated Hatsumomo from the beginning and must have thought the kimono was hers.
(c) Ruining the kimono was Chiyo's idea.
(d) They can't very well punish Hatsumomo.

9. What is Chiyo asked to deliver to Hatsumomo in chapter 7?
(a) Her tortoiseshell hairpin.
(b) Her obi.
(c) Her brooch.
(d) Her shamisen.

10. What does Mr. Tanaka write has happened to Satsu?
(a) She has come back to Yoroido.
(b) She has fallen ill.
(c) She has run off with Mr. Sugi's son.
(d) She has died.

11. What does Kuniko say Taro is afraid of?
(a) Crabs.
(b) Bugs.
(c) Earthworms.
(d) Spiders.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Mameha say Sayuri can make a good impression on Nobu?

3. What is hataki komi?

4. How does Pumpkin react to Mameha's visit?

5. In talking with Mother, what excuse does Chiyo make up for her presence in the entrance hall during Mameha's visit?

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