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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 did MM find hard to do when Fujiwara chose to spend his time with his other wife?
(a) Pray.
(b) Care for her child.
(c) Eat.
(d) Sleep.

2. Why was MM concerned that her prayers would not be answered?
(a) She felt Tokihime had more potent prayers.
(b) She felt she had fallen out of favor with her ancestors.
(c) She felt Tokihime and Fujiwara were praying against her own prayers.
(d) She felt she complained too much.

3. What did MM discover amidst Fujiwara's belongings early in their marriage?
(a) A flower.
(b) A note to another woman.
(c) A drawing of a nude woman.
(d) A book of verse.

4. Who was in charge of the administration with whom Fujiwara worked?
(a) The priest.
(b) The prince.
(c) His first wife's brother.
(d) MM's father.

5. What did MM admit to considering when she wrote her letter to Fujiwara?
(a) Murder.
(b) Suicide.
(c) A religious life.
(d) Isolation in a new country.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Fujiwara not allowed to touch his wife when she was ill?

2. For what did Fujiwara instruct MM to prepare when she returned from her pilgrimage?

3. Why did Fujiwara move MM closer to the palace after his promotion?

4. Where is MM when Fujiwara first attempted to visit her?

5. What did MM and Fujiwara play at the Gosechi Festival?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Fujiwara treat MM after her year of mourning?

2. How did Fujiwara react to MM's severe depression?

3. How did MM's journey grow less enjoyable after her encounter with the courier?

4. How did Fujiwara's illness improve his relationship with MM?

5. How did Fujiwara treat his relationship with his first wife?

6. Describe MM's pilgrimage to Hase.

7. Why did MM begin to make so many pilgrimages?

8. How did MM realize Fujiwara was still seeing his first wife?

9. How did Fujiwara's affair with his first wife affect MM?

10. After Fujiwara's illness, how did MM's feelings of dissatisfaction with her lot in life begin to manifest?

(see the answer keys)

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