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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 does Sayuri ask Auntie to do when she goes back to the okiya to get Nobu's piece of concrete?
(a) Call Pumpkin and ask her to come help.
(b) Call Nobu and tell him he can't be her danna.
(c) Call Mameha and ask for her advice.
(d) Call the Ichiriki and tell them she can't come back.

2. 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) Her maid had been misbehaving.
(b) She was stuck on a train.
(c) A water pipe broke in her apartment.
(d) Her dresser was late.

3. Why does Mother suggest that Sayuri and Hatsumomo change rooms?
(a) Sayuri has so many kimono that she needs the extra space.
(b) Sayuri is now the daughter of the okiya and so she is more important.
(c) Hatsumomo's behavior makes Mother so angry that she thinks it's time for a change.
(d) Sayuri has earned more money than Hatsumomo and Pumpkin combined.

4. Who is Mr. Tsu?
(a) Sayuri's new dresser.
(b) Mameha's new danna.
(c) Hatsumomo's new assistant.
(d) Nobu.

5. What kind of General is the General Junnosuke?
(a) A Korean General.
(b) A ruthless General.
(c) A low ranked General.
(d) A high ranked General.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Baron seduce Sayuri?

2. Why does Sayuri say she believes the Chairman has come to the Ichiriki after the incident with the Chairman?

3. Whom does Sayuri say she's waiting for before she returns to Gion?

4. What event is Sayuri referring to when she states: "...there did finally come a time when even the pinpoint of light in which we'd managed to keep ourselves suddenly went out" in chapter 28?

5. What topic of conversation does Sayuri use at the beginning of chapter 25 to make an example of various geisha's talent for making conversation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Sayuri watches Mameha dance at the performance of "Dances of the Old Capital"?

2. What does the Chairman say he believes Sayuri's reason is for having seduced the Minister?

3. How does Sayuri come to the impression that the Chairman is in love with Pumpkin?

4. What does the Minister do that so angers Nobu at the end of chapter 32?

5. What does Sayuri spend her time doing during her first week back in Gion after her years with the Arashinos?

6. What is Sayuri's impression of Pumpkin when she arrives at the Ichiriki to help entertain the Minister?

7. What is the purpose of Nobu's visit to Sayuri at the Arashino estate?

8. Describe Sayuri's encounter with Yasuda Akira and what she learns from it.

9. What does Sayuri realize she can do to keep Nobu out of her life forever?

10. Describe Sayuri's first encounter with Pumpkin after her return to Gion following the end of the war.

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