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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did MM enjoy watching most of all in Uji?

2. What was significant about the letters MM sent back to Fujiwara during their courtship?

3. How did the Prince treat the problems of his new neighbors, Fujiwara, and MM?

4. Who was in the box next to MM and Fujiwara at the Gosechi Festival?

5. After mourning for a year, what did MM and her family purify?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did MM realize Tokihime had lost favor with Fujiwara?

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

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

4. What precipitated MM's illness around the ten year anniversary of her marriage?

5. How did Fujiwara's job affect his relationship to MM?

6. Into what was MM thrust upon her return from her pilgrimage?

7. What was the significance of MM giving birth to Michitsuna so quickly after her marriage?

8. What happened when Tokihime had another child with Fujiwara?

9. Why did Fujiwara send a courier after MM on her pilgrimage? What was her response?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the various ways in which power was the central conflict between many of the people in MM's diary, particularly between the lady herself and her husband.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the different marital traditions of the Heian period and how it contrasted to the modern concept of a marriage.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and analyze the marriage of MM and Fujiwara.

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