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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Komako write in her diary?
(a) Stories and poetry.
(b) Everything about herself.
(c) Notes about her patrons.
(d) Weather reports.

2. Who does Shimamura ask to hire a geisha for him?
(a) A restaurant owner.
(b) A maid.
(c) Komako.
(d) The innkeeper.

3. What does Shimamura refer to as "free, uncontrolled fantasy"?
(a) Reading books set abroad.
(b) His trips to the resort town.
(c) Movies.
(d) His dance research.

4. What is the name of the mountain range that surrounds the resort town?
(a) Great Range.
(b) Valley Range.
(c) Border Range.
(d) Coastal Range.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Komako says is entitled to decided when a geisha is dismissed?

2. What does Shimamura hear, which he says 'rings out clearly'?

3. What does Shimamura say he let himself believe about the young geisha?

4. After they sleep together, what does Komako believe Shimamura is laughing at?

5. What does Komako intend to do with her diary before she dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What symbolism does Shimamura see in the reflection of Yoko's face in the window?

2. Who does Shimamura meet on his way home from Komako's room, and what impressed him about this person?

3. Why were there no geisha available when Shimamura requested one?

4. What are Komako's living arrangements like?

5. What has Komako cataloged since she was a teenager?

6. Where is Shimamura headed at the beginning of the story, and who does he plan to meet?

7. How does Komako express her liking of Shimamura when she visits his room at the inn on his second visit to the resort town?

8. When Shimamura arrives for his second visit to the resort town, how many days does Komako say it has it been since she and Shimamura spent their night together, and how can she be sure of this?

9. What distracts Shimamura after leaving his inn and the young geisha, and what does he do?

10. What does Shimamura notice about Yoko's care of her sick companion?

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