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

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

3. What did Fujiwara enjoy sending MM in the early days of their courtship?

4. What did MM's father leave for Fujiwara before his trip?

5. With what is Fujiwara dissatisfied amid his wives' struggles to prove to him their worth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How did MM support Fujiwara during his illness?

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

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

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

10. Describe MM's pilgrimage to Hase.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the roles jealousy and humiliation played in MM's life in regards to her relationships with her husband, family, attendants, and other women.

Essay Topic 2

Compose an essay about the significance of MM's final rejection of Fujiwara and the ways in which she came to terms with their broken marriage.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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