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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three: Pages 329 through 379.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Fujiwara agree to allow the director to marry the girl?
(a) Immediately.
(b) Later in the year.
(c) Two months.
(d) Four months.

2. What did Fujiwara enjoy sending MM in the early days of their courtship?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Letters.
(d) Sake.

3. Who kept MM awake one night during her pilgrimage?
(a) A poet.
(b) A blind man.
(c) The Prince.
(d) A priest.

4. What event took up a great deal of MM's time after her return from her pilgrimage?
(a) Hinamatsuri.
(b) Tea ceremony.
(c) Enthronement Rites.
(d) The birth of her second child.

5. Of what did MM's prayer offerings consist?
(a) Her anger.
(b) Prose.
(c) Her family wealth.
(d) Poems.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words did MM's child begin to repeat after hearing his father say it repeatedly?

2. What excuse did MM give to Fujiwara about how she could not see him on her retreat?

3. What did MM find lacking on the trail out of the market town?

4. With what heartbreak did "The Kagero Diary" end?

5. Why did Fujiwara leave home after he became ill?

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