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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a trait of the Safflower Princess?
(a) Beautiful eyes.
(b) Thin, misshapen body.
(c) Red nose.
(d) Pretty hair.

2. Who is caring for Genji at the beginning of Chapter 5 during his travel to mountains?
(a) A sage.
(b) A Bishop.
(c) Murasaki.
(d) His nurse.

3. Who is Genji's best friend?
(a) Murasaki.
(b) Akashi.
(c) Yugiri.
(d) To no Chujo.

4. What are Fujitsubo's intentions after her husband's death?
(a) To begin a relationship with Genji.
(b) To remarry.
(c) To become a nun.
(d) To commit suicide.

5. Genji sleeps with this woman who is in her sixties.
(a) Murasaki.
(b) Utsusemi.
(c) Fujitsubo.
(d) Naishi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Genji sleep with when visiting his former nurse?

2. What does Genji avoid doing at the start of the rule of the Suzaku emperor?

3. Whose sister is Oborozukiyo?

4. Genji is in love with a woman whom he cannot have during the beginning of the novel. Who is this woman?

5. What unavailable woman does Genji greatly desire at the beginning of the novel?

(see the answer key)

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