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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 say repeatedly when she and Shimamura return to his room after their night out?
(a) That she loves Shimamura.
(b) That she is going home
(c) That she doesn't want Shimamura to go back to Tokyo.
(d) That she doesn't feel well.

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

3. What does Shimamura wonder about when he's on the train?
(a) Whether Yukio is dead.
(b) Whether the train will reach Tokyo on time
(c) Whether Yoko loves Yukio.
(d) Whether the weather will stay clear.

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

5. On their first full day together, what does Shimamura suggest Komako practice?
(a) The taiko drum.
(b) The samisen.
(c) Occidental dance.
(d) English words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Komako's feelings about visiting the cemetery?

2. What does Shimamura ask Komako about Yoko, which makes her angry?

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

4. What does Shimamura's wife warn him about the season?

5. On the night of the festival, who asks Shimamura whether he ever worries about other people's problems?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discussion does Shimamura overhear in the hallway?

2. Who is on the train with Shimamura when he leaves the resort town for the second time, and how do they disappoint him?

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

4. What does Komako tell Shimamura of the geisha Kikuyu?

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

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

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

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

9. What warning does Shimamura's wife give him before his trip to the resort town?

10. Describe the peddler that Shimamura meets.

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