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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mr. Tanaka deliver to Chiyo for her mother at the beginning of chapter 2?
(a) Tea.
(b) Chinese herbs.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Fish.

4. Which teahouse does Mameha entertain Dr. Crab at the end of chapter 20?
(a) At the Mizuki.
(b) At the Shirae.
(c) At the Ichiriki.
(d) At the Yashino.

5. What are tsutsumi, okawa, and taiko?
(a) Kinds of stringed instruments.
(b) Kinds of dances.
(c) Kinds of drums.
(d) Kinds of songs.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Hatsumomo's boyfriend do for a living?

3. What are ohana?

4. Why does Hatsumomo say Sayuri should say "Ah...ah..." at the beginning of chapter 15?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly explain the Chairman's relationship with Nobu.

2. Explain how Sayuri gets her new name.

3. Explain what Mameha spends her time doing with Chiyo in chapter 13 and why.

4. What does Mameha tell Dr. Crab to make him doubt what Hatsumomo has told him?

5. What caused Nobu's injuries?

6. How does Chiyo feel about Mr. Tanaka when she first meets him?

7. Explain what Sayuri says in chapter 15 at the time of her debut about how she is beginning to feel about Hatsumomo's beauty.

8. Explain how Satsu seems to be doing when Chiyo sees her in chapter 7.

9. How does Chiyo rationalize the visit with Mrs. Fidget, considering her hopes that Mr. Tanaka will adopt her and Satsu?

10. What does Mameha tell Chiyo at the beginning of chapter 12 to do in regards to Hatsumomo?

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