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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 53-69.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the name of the kotonashi shrub mean?
(a) High face.
(b) Shining leaves.
(c) Grass that endures.
(d) Nothing wrong.
2. What kind of plant did Shonagon find pretty when it floated on the water of a pond?
(a) Water oats.
(b) Lotus leaves.
(c) Hollyhock.
(d) Water-plantain.
3. What was the weather like in the Seventh Month?
(a) Bitter cold.
(b) Cool and breezy.
(c) Stiflingly hot.
(d) Mild and warm.
4. What did Shonagon say gentlemen should always have lest she find them boring?
(a) Nice clothes.
(b) Money.
(c) Quick tongues.
(d) Escorts.
5. What hateful thing did Shonagon say some elderly people did when warming their hands over a brazier?
(a) Slept.
(b) Stretched out their wrinkles.
(c) Rubbed their hands together.
(d) Counted their age spots.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Yukinari's title?
2. In "It Is So Stiflingly Hot," who did the woman in the house with the open lattice receive a letter from?
3. What bird did Shonagon say she liked even though it did not belong to her country?
4. Which of the people associated with ox carts were to be dressed well?
5. What color of under-robe was depressing in the Eighth Month?
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