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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 53-69.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. During what festival did people decorate with irises?
(a) The Festival of the Eighth Month.
(b) The Festival of the Third Month.
(c) The Festival of the Fifth Month.
(d) The Festival of the First Month.
2. What title was Norimitsu awarded after his falling out with Shonagon?
(a) Middle Counsellor.
(b) Lieutenant of the Guards.
(c) Assistant Governor of Totomi.
(d) Governor of Suruga.
3. Where did the women plan to go to hear a hototogisu sing during the Abstinence of the Fifth Month?
(a) A cherry orchard.
(b) A bridge.
(c) An old mill.
(d) A field.
4. In "It Is So Stiflingly Hot," who did the woman in the house with the open lattice receive a letter from?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her original lover.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The Emperor.
5. What did Shonagon say a well-bred young man should never do when visiting a woman of lower rank?
(a) Kiss her.
(b) Call out her name.
(c) Let anyone see him.
(d) Give her gifts.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Shonagon think small children and babies should look like?
2. What color were the horses that members of the nobility came to see on the first day of the First Month?
3. What did His Majesty ask Shonagon and the others to write down on a folded piece of paper following dinner?
4. What insect did Shonagon say she should have included in her list of hateful things?
5. What was wrong with the appearance of the escorts that Shonagon saw while visiting the palace to see the horses on the first day of the First Month?
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