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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 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. Who does Mother insist Nobu's ruby was for?
(a) Sayuri.
(b) Pumpkin.
(c) Mameha.
(d) Hatsumomo.

3. Where does the Baron seduce Sayuri?
(a) In his bedroom.
(b) In his entrance hall.
(c) In his garden.
(d) In his dressing room.

4. Who tells Sayuri that everything is fine after the Baron has misused her?
(a) Nobu.
(b) Mameha.
(c) The Chairman.
(d) Mr. Itchoda.

5. Why does Sayuri leave Gion after the Chairman becomes her danna?
(a) Since she reached the only goal she ever had, there's no reason to stay.
(b) To avoid Nobu.
(c) Mother no longer wants her in the okiya.
(d) Gion isn't what it once had been.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who doesn't seem to be paying attention when Sayuri begins her story about stopping to cry by the Shirakawa Stream?

2. Where does Mother tell Sayuri she'll be going for the weekend?

3. What does the Chairman present to the Baron as a gift?

4. What does Arashino make?

5. At the end of chapter 23, how long does Mother say she has been talking to Sayuri about adoption?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sayuri say at the end of the novel about how passion fades?

2. Why doesn't Sayuri stop the Baron from undressing her at the end of chapter 22?

3. What does Sayuri think about on her way to Hakone?

4. What does Sayuri say happened to Korin and why does she mention the story in chapter 28?

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

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

7. How does the rumor get started that Hatsumomo has been declared mentally unstable?

8. How does Mother deal with Hatsumomo's rage when the latter finds out that Mother won't be adopting Pumpkin?

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

10. What does Sayuri say in chapter 25 about geisha's talents for making conversation?

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