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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25 | Chapter 26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Genji do while he is visiting the Safflower Princess?
(a) Hold her close.
(b) Stare at her intensly.
(c) Look at her through a blurred curtain.
(d) Look at her with loving eyes.

2. What unavailable woman does Genji greatly desire at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Rokujo.
(b) Fujitsubo.
(c) Murasaki.
(d) Aoi.

3. What happens to Aoi shortly after she gives birth to her son?
(a) She becomes a nun.
(b) She leaves Genji.
(c) She becomes possessed.
(d) She dies.

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

5. After falling out of favor with the court where does Genji decide to go?
(a) Kamo.
(b) Kyoto.
(c) Suma.
(d) Tokyo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does To no Chujo send Kumoinokari?

2. Of what is the Suzaku Emperor fond?

3. What or who does Genji dream about in Chapter 13?

4. What happens in Chapter 13 that causes Genji to reevaluate his past?

5. Fujitsubo is ashamed of Genji's presence because:

(see the answer key)

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