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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Komako say of her work ethic to Shimamura?
(a) Komako works just enough to get by.
(b) Komako envies people who take joy in their work.
(c) Komako worked harder than anyone in her family.
(d) Komako has never had to work hard a day in her life.

3. While in his room, whose voice does Shimamura hear calling to Komako from the hallway?
(a) Yoko's.
(b) A maid's.
(c) The music teacher's.
(d) The innkeeper's.

4. Who is on the train with Shimamura when he leaves to go back to Tokyo at the end of Part One?
(a) A mother and her children.
(b) A young man in a western-style suit.
(c) An elderly woman carrying parcels of food.
(d) A middle-aged man and a young woman.

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

6. What is the purpose of the town's February festival?
(a) To bless local wildlife.
(b) To welcome the new year.
(c) To ward off evil.
(d) To usher in spring.

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

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

9. How many times has Komako visited Yukio's grave?
(a) Twelve times.
(b) Only once.
(c) Three or four times.
(d) Never.

10. What does Shimamura's wife warn him about the season?
(a) That it gets cold quickly at night.
(b) That it is the season when sickness spreads easily.
(c) That there are several "bad luck days" ahead.
(d) That it is "egg-laying" season.

11. What are Komako's feelings about visiting the cemetery?
(a) Komako is relieved to finally go.
(b) Komako is indifferent about going.
(c) Komako is unwilling to go.
(d) Komako is agreeable to going.

12. Who thought it was a good idea for Yukio and Komako to marry?
(a) Komako herself.
(b) Komako's mother.
(c) Yukio's mother.
(d) Yukio himself.

13. Who says Shimamura asks questions he has no business asking?
(a) Kikuyu.
(b) Shimamura's wife.
(c) Komako.
(d) Yoko.

14. What does Komako apparently stop trying to do when staying at Shimamura's?
(a) Leaving before daybreak.
(b) Snoring.
(c) Drinking too much alcohol
(d) Sitting on the floor.

15. Where does Shimamura learn that Yoko is working?
(a) At the candy shop.
(b) At the hospital.
(c) At a geisha house.
(d) At the inn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who saw Komako off when she left for geisha training?

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

3. What kind of grass used to thatch roofs does Shimamura see some women carrying?

4. Who does Shimamura hear Komako discussing her fee with?

5. What does Komako think Shimamura should do the day following the festival?

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