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

2. Which of Yoko's features is Komako certain Shimamura likes?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her lips.
(c) Her eyes.
(d) Her figure.

3. What is Komako told about Yukio at the train station?
(a) That he is asking to see her.
(b) That he is marrying Yoko.
(c) That Yukio is dying.
(d) That he has recovered from his illness.

4. Who has Komako signed a contract with to serve as a geisha?
(a) A candy shop owner.
(b) A loan-shark.
(c) A newspaper publisher.
(d) An innkeeper.

5. How many geisha serve the thirty guests of the party that Komako works at?
(a) Ten.
(b) Six.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Komako apparently stop trying to do when staying at Shimamura's?

2. What promise does Komako say Shimamura broke with her?

3. Where was Komako sent to become a geisha?

4. How does Shimamura describe the voice that he hears calling to Komako from the hallway?

5. Where does Shimamura learn that Yoko is working?

Short Essay Questions

1. What explanation does Komako give about her rumored engagement to Yukio?

2. After delivering a note to Shimamura, what does Yoko ask of him concerning her travel plans?

3. Who has Komako signed a geisha contract with and where does she live?

4. Describe the peddler that Shimamura meets.

5. What discussion does Shimamura overhear in the hallway?

6. What do Shimamura and Komako do the night before he is to leave for Tokyo?

7. What is the bird chasing festival?

8. Describe Komako's drunken arrival at Shimamura's room at three in the morning.

9. What is the content of the first note Komako sends to Shimamura, and who does she have deliver it?

10. What does Shimamura find when he awakes at the beginning of this section of Part One?

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