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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sayuri learn from Yasuda Akira?
(a) Why Nobu is angry with her.
(b) Having a meal can be a graceful affair.
(c) Sexual encounters don't have to be unpleasant.
(d) How to ride a bicycle.

2. What does Sayuri find in Hatsumomo's room while trying to retrieve her journal?
(a) Mameha's stolen kimono.
(b) Pumpkin's earnings for the previous month.
(c) Mother's dog.
(d) The emerald brooch.

3. What does Sayuri tell the Chairman he should do during their brief encounter in chapter 26?
(a) He should be careful not to drink so much.
(b) He should arrange for her to see Nobu.
(c) He should invite her to entertain at a party.
(d) He should be nicer to the apprentice geisha.

4. Who designed the gardens at the Baron's estate?
(a) Arashino.
(b) The Baron.
(c) The Baron's grandfather.
(d) The Baron's father.

5. What object springs to Sayuri's mind that makes her decide not to let the Chairman's handkerchief fly away at the sea cliffs?
(a) The mortuary tablets Mr. Tanaka had sent her.
(b) Nobu's piece of concrete.
(c) Her private journal.
(d) Her Noh mask.

6. What does Mameha tell Sayuri that the Kaburenjo Theater has been turned into?
(a) A teahouse.
(b) A kyabarei.
(c) An okiya.
(d) A brothel.

7. Why does Sayuri decide to go ahead with her plan about the Minister and Nobu?
(a) She can't stand to look at Nobu.
(b) She feels that Nobu is just trying to demonstrate his power.
(c) She feels that it's time to get back at Nobu.
(d) She feels that Nobu doesn't understand her.

8. What does Mameha compare Sayuri to at the end of the Baron's party, just before her mizuage?
(a) A meal on the table.
(b) A tantalizing steak.
(c) A juicy little piece of fruit.
(d) A succulent piece of fish.

9. What is the exchange system by which everyday things are bought and sold in Gion called in the novel?
(a) The red market.
(b) The black market.
(c) The gray market.
(d) The housewives' market.

10. Why does Mameha suggest Sayuri wishes she could be like the geisha Shizue?
(a) Shizue was mistress to a man she was truly fond of.
(b) Shizue was prettier than any other geisha.
(c) Shizue could make conversation better than any other geisha.
(d) Shizue was financially more successful than any other geisha.

11. What does Sayuri think about while on the train on her way to Hakone?
(a) Nobu.
(b) The Chairman.
(c) Her future.
(d) Her train trip with Mr. Bekku.

12. How long does Nobu say he has known Sayuri?
(a) All his life.
(b) Ten years.
(c) All her life.
(d) Fifteen years.

13. Why won't the Baron help Mameha?
(a) He's been arrested.
(b) He has lost all his money.
(c) He wants to punish her.
(d) He's no longer her danna.

14. Why does Mameha say she's arrived late the evening she and Pumpkin arrive to find the Chairman and Sayuri alone at the Ichiriki?
(a) She was stuck on a train.
(b) Her maid had been misbehaving.
(c) Her dresser was late.
(d) A water pipe broke in her apartment.

15. Which of the following geisha was Dr. Crab not mizuage patron to?
(a) Hatsumomo.
(b) Korin.
(c) Mamekichi.
(d) Mameha.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Iwamura Electric secure a loan?

2. Where does Sayuri find herself as soon after seeing the Chairman open the door to the theater as she can remember anything?

3. Where does the Baron seduce Sayuri?

4. Which role does Mameha dance in "A Courtier Returns to His Wife"?

5. How many years have passed since the Chairman told Sayuri about his feelings by the end of the narration?

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