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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 116-135.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color robe did Korechika wear when he came to report to His Majesty while the ladies sat discussing the painting on a sliding screen?
(a) Wistaria.
(b) Black.
(c) Golden yellow.
(d) Cherry-colored.
2. What did Shonagon say gentlemen should always have lest she find them boring?
(a) Nice clothes.
(b) Money.
(c) Escorts.
(d) Quick tongues.
3. In the section titled "It Was During One of Her Majesty's Periods of Residence," what did the women go outside to see in the early morning?
(a) Geese passing overhead.
(b) The moon.
(c) A parade.
(d) An approaching storm.
4. What did Masahiro hide behind a screen to eat?
(a) Beans.
(b) Fish.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Rice.
5. Which of the following did Shonagon include on her list of presumptuous things?
(a) Burping.
(b) Sneezing.
(c) Foot shuffling.
(d) Coughing.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who said he/she would order the dancers to perform for the ladies-in-waiting after the Special Festival at Iwashimizu?
2. How did Shonagon feel about women who lived at home and cared for their husbands?
3. In "When His Excellency, the Chancellor, Had Departed" who reminded Shonagon of the next line of a poem she had forgotten?
4. What did Shonagon say a woman's house should look like when she lived alone?
5. What color was the lute Shonagon saw the Empress holding in the section called "A Group of Senior Courtiers?"
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