2. What relationship does Shimamura want with Komako?
(a) Friendship.
(b) No relationship at all.
(c) A romantic relationship.
(d) An employer/employee relationship.

3. What country is "Snow Country" set in?
(a) Korea.
(b) China.
(c) Japan.
(d) India.

4. What does Shimamura hear, which he says 'rings out clearly'?
(a) A singing bird.
(b) An alarm.
(c) A church bell.
(d) A woman's voice.

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

6. What reason does the old woman give for Komako having become a geisha?
(a) Komako needs to pay off gambling debts.
(b) Komako can find no other work.
(c) Komako has a gift for the arts practiced by geisha.
(d) Komako is helping to pay medical bills.

7. In Shimamura's room at night, what does Komako claim is ailing her before stating that she must go home?
(a) A headache.
(b) Dizziness.
(c) A stomach ache.
(d) A fever.

8. What does Shimamura say seems to be pulling him back to Komako from afar?
(a) His subconscious.
(b) His heart.
(c) The forefinger of his left hand.
(d) The thread of fate.

9. How does Komako feel about leaving Shimamura's room?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Sad.
(c) Reluctant.
(d) Joyful.

10. Who tells Shimamura about the unlicensed geisha, Komako?
(a) A maid.
(b) A bather at the hot springs.
(c) A patron of a bar.
(d) A geisha.

11. What does Komako have to drink after barging into Shimamura's room for the second time?
(a) Water.
(b) Wine.
(c) Tea.
(d) Sake.

12. Who or what appears on Komako's list the most?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Shimamura.
(c) Romances.
(d) Horses.

13. What does Shimamura say he let himself believe about the young geisha?
(a) That they are better than other women.
(b) That they would be approving of him.
(c) That they would all be like Komako.
(d) That they hate their jobs.

14. What is Komako's room like?
(a) The room is neat.
(b) The room is messy.
(c) The room is windowless.
(d) The room is bare.

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