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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Pages 108 - 139.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Komako practice music?
(a) With a tutor.
(b) By listening to recordings.
(c) With another geisha.
(d) From scores.

2. What does Shimamura's wife say he should take care of in her warning about the season?
(a) His health.
(b) His eating habits.
(c) His clothing.
(d) His bathing habits.

3. Why does Komako bite her arm?
(a) Because Komako wants to scare Shimamura.
(b) Because Komako is trying to be funny.
(c) Because Komako wants to make it look like someone attacked her.
(d) Because Komako's body has gone limp.

4. What does Komako say repeatedly when she and Shimamura return to his room after their night out?
(a) That she doesn't want Shimamura to go back to Tokyo.
(b) That she doesn't feel well.
(c) That she loves Shimamura.
(d) That she is going home

5. Who runs up to Komako at the train station?
(a) Yoko.
(b) The train conductor.
(c) A beggar.
(d) The music teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Komako say of her work ethic to Shimamura?

2. What song do children sing during the February festival?

3. In the spring, how long had Shimamura spent in the mountains?

4. What does Yukio's mother do for a living?

5. Why does Komako say she has come to Shimamura's room?

(see the answer key)

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