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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two, Pages 139 - 172.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saw Komako off when she left for geisha training?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Only Yoko.
(c) Only the music teacher.
(d) Only Yukio.

2. How are Komako's skills described to Shimamura?
(a) As not amateur.
(b) As well-practiced.
(c) As the best in town.
(d) As unrefined.

3. What do Shimamura and Komako talk about?
(a) Books.
(b) The hot springs.
(c) The train.
(d) The mountains.

4. Who is Komako engaged to, according to the old woman?
(a) One of her wealthy patrons.
(b) Yukio.
(c) A doctor.
(d) Shimamura.

5. What does Komako refuse to close one day when she is staying at the inn with Shimamura?
(a) A window.
(b) A book.
(c) A cabinet.
(d) A door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Komako and Shimamura notice the brilliance of as they run toward the burning building?

2. What does Komako say repeatedly when she and Shimamura return to his room after their night out?

3. What does Komako excuse herself from the cemetery to do?

4. At the end of the novel, what flows down inside Shimamura "with a roar"?

5. Before she stumbles into Shimamura's room, who has Komako spent the evening with?

(see the answer key)

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