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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do children build out of snow during the February festival?
(a) People.
(b) A snow palace.
(c) Birds.
(d) Dragons.

2. Why does Komako say she has come to Shimamura's room?
(a) Because she promised to.
(b) Because she forgot something there.
(c) Because she missed Shimamura.
(d) Because she feels comfortable there.

3. What obstacle can the drunken Komako not believe she surpassed on her own to reach Shimamura's room?
(a) The hill to the inn.
(b) A locked gate.
(c) A rickety bridge.
(d) The dark hallway.

4. What promise does Komako say Shimamura broke with her?
(a) To never come back to the resort town.
(b) To write her letters.
(c) To visit her on February fourteenth.
(d) To leave his wife.

5. What does Komako call home to have delivered?
(a) An instrument.
(b) A fresh kimono.
(c) Her makeup.
(d) Her diary.

6. Who does Shimamura hear Komako discussing her fee with?
(a) Another geisha.
(b) The innkeeper.
(c) Yoko.
(d) A maid.

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

8. What answer does Komako give to Shimamura's questions about her engagement?
(a) Komako is not engaged.
(b) Komako hopes to get married someday.
(c) Komako might be forced get married.
(d) Komako is engaged.

9. 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

10. What does Komako excuse herself from the cemetery to do?
(a) To buy some flowers.
(b) To wash her hair.
(c) To meet one of her patrons.
(d) To mail a letter.

11. What does Yoko tell Shimamura she feels about Komako?
(a) That she does not like Komako.
(b) That she respects Komako.
(c) That she thinks Komako is funny.
(d) That she distrusts Komako.

12. At night with Shimamura, who does Komako say spend all of their time at the cemetery?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The music teacher.
(c) Yoko.
(d) Yukio.

13. What does Shimamura ask Komako about Yoko, which makes her angry?
(a) Whether Yoko loved Yukio.
(b) Whether Yoko is single.
(c) Whether Komako treats Yoko nicely.
(d) Whether Yoko lives alone.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On Shimamura's third visit to the resort town, what food is the innkeeper's wife warming when he arrives at the inn?

3. When Yoko is sent to Shimamura's room a second time, where does Yoko tell him she intends to go?

4. How many geisha serve the thirty guests of the party that Komako works at?

5. What does Komako insist she and Shimamura do the night before he is to return to Tokyo?

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