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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. What does Komako say her diary can confirm?
(a) How much money she has made working as a geisha.
(b) The promises Shimamura made her on his last visit.
(c) The date of her night with Shimamura.
(d) What the weather has been like any day of the last year.

2. Who has died since Shimamura last left the resort town?
(a) The blind masseuse.
(b) Yukio and the music teacher.
(c) Yukio.
(d) The innkeeper's daughter.

3. On the night of the festival, who asks Shimamura whether he ever worries about other people's problems?
(a) Yoko.
(b) Komako.
(c) Kikuyu.
(d) A beggar woman.

4. Who is Kikuyu?
(a) The music teacher.
(b) Komako's sister.
(c) Shimamura's wife.
(d) A geisha who has left town.

5. What is Komako's purpose in creating her catalog?
(a) Komako hopes to share it with her children.
(b) Komako will read it as an old woman to remember her youth.
(c) It is like a fun personal game for her.
(d) There is no purpose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says Shimamura asks questions he has no business asking?

2. What does Komako call home to have delivered?

3. What skill does Komako tell Shimamura she has one night?

4. What are Komako's feelings about visiting the cemetery?

5. In her new home, what must Komako do to save electricity?

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