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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 favor did Fujiwara ask MM to do for his first wife?
2. How did MM feel about her marriage after ten years?
3. According to her reply through the courier, where was MM heading after her stay in the market town?
4. What did Fujiwara begin to do that caused MM to believe he was "cheating" in his courtship?
5. Looking back on Fujiwara's courtship, what was significant about how MM currently felt about her eventual marriage to him?
Short Essay Questions
1. Into what was MM thrust upon her return from her pilgrimage?
2. How did MM's initial impressions of Fujiwara compare to her feelings for him after their marriage?
3. How did Fujiwara treat his relationship with his first wife?
4. What was the significance of MM giving birth to Michitsuna so quickly after her marriage?
5. Why did MM begin to make so many pilgrimages?
6. How did the Prince treat MM and Fujiwara's relationship?
7. What precipitated MM's illness around the ten year anniversary of her marriage?
8. What was significant about Michitsuna repeating "See you later" after his father?
9. How did Fujiwara's affair with his first wife affect MM?
10. Describe MM's pilgrimage to Hase.
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
Compose an essay about the ways in which the director's fervent pursuit of MM's adopted daughter was an echo of Fujiwara's courtship of MM and the implications of this in regards to their society.
Essay Topic 3
Compose an essay that dissects Fujiwara's personality from the reader's point of view as well as MM's perspective. How do the differences in perception help form an accurate picture of his character?
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