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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. What was the old nun who came on the second day of the Perpetual Readings asking for?
2. 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?
3. What does the name of the kotonashi shrub mean?
4. What does Shonagon say was depressing for a messenger who brought a gift to a house where a child was just born?
5. What kind of plant did Shonagon find pretty when it floated on the water of a pond?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Shonagon offer a gardener a reward to see to it that the snow mountain did not melt until after the fifteenth of the First Month?
2. Why didn't the women write their hototogisu poems after going on an outing to hear them sing?
3. How did Shonagon describe the life of a priest?
4. Why was it considered such a bad thing for Masahiro to leave his shoes on the serving-board?
5. Why did Shonagon send her brother a piece of seaweed in reply to his letter?
6. What was the reason given for the way the snap-beetle bowed while crawling?
7. Why did Tsunefusa begin calling Shonagon Grass Hut?
8. Why did Shonagon say that young herbs peeking through the snow were unexpected near the Palace?
9. Why didn't Shonagon like the husbands of nurse-maids?
10. Why did the Empress give the old nun, whom the women later dubbed Hitachi no Suke, one of her own robes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Shonagon's personality develop from the time when she was first a lady-in-waiting to the time when she wrote the book? What changed about her? What may have brought those changes about?
Essay Topic 2
How did Shonagon feel about aesthetics? How do you know this? Discuss some sections in which Shonagon specifically talked about how things should look. What do these sections reveal about Shonagon?
Essay Topic 3
What was life in the women's apartments like for Shonagon? What was the building like? How did the people interact? What role did the apartments have in Shonagon's social life?
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