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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 present to Mameha as a gift?
(a) A beautiful calligraphy.
(b) An ink painting.
(c) Her dancing fans.
(d) Her collection of kimono.

2. What does Pumpkin say the Minister looks like?
(a) A big horse.
(b) A big pig.
(c) A big elephant.
(d) A big fish.

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

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

5. What does Mameha do during the war?
(a) She continues to entertain in Gion.
(b) She begins selling tea on the grey market.
(c) She works in a hospital.
(d) She becomes a kimono maker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sayuri say she and the Chairman spend a few days before continuing on to New York?

2. What does Sayuri ask Auntie to do when she goes back to the okiya to get Nobu's piece of concrete?

3. What has Sayuri written on the front page of her journal?

4. Where does the Baron seduce Sayuri?

5. Why does Pumpkin say she brought the Chairman instead of Nobu to the theater?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the disagreement Hatsumomo and Sayuri have about the brooch in chapter 27.

2. Explain why Sayuri needs to leave Gion after the Chairman becomes her danna and what arrangements are made for her to do so.

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

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

5. What reason does Pumpkin give for having betrayed Sayuri?

6. How does Sayuri experience her mizuage?

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

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

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

10. Explain how Sayuri finds herself in a difficult situation when Mameha comes to the okiya to collect on her bet with Mother.

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