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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. Who responded to MM's letters for Fujiwara during his illness?

2. What disappointed MM about her travels after the market town?

3. How did Fujiwara respond to the Prince's actions with his wife?

4. Why did MM make so many pilgrimages to different shrines?

5. According to her reply through the courier, where was MM heading after her stay in the market town?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did the Prince treat MM and Fujiwara's relationship?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the ways in which the politics of the Heian period were linked to religious matters.

Essay Topic 2

Why was MM given to suicidal thoughts? How serious did she appear to be about them? Write an essay discussing her descent into consideration of suicide, her sincerity about it, and how she was able to pull herself away from it.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and analyze the marriage of MM and Fujiwara.

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