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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 did the women plan to go to hear a hototogisu sing during the Abstinence of the Fifth Month?
2. What tree did Shonagon say had a vulgar name?
3. In the section called "Hateful Things," what hateful thing happened when an admirer came for a clandestine visit?
4. What did one of the women ask the old nun to do, which the Empress found degrading?
5. What did common people often add to their speech?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Shonagon and the other women often have to stay away from the Palace?
2. Why did Shonagon change her opinion of the blossom of the pear tree?
3. Why didn't Shonagon like the husbands of nurse-maids?
4. Why did the Empress give the old nun, whom the women later dubbed Hitachi no Suke, one of her own robes?
5. Why did Shonagon say that young herbs peeking through the snow were unexpected near the Palace?
6. Why was it considered such a bad thing for Masahiro to leave his shoes on the serving-board?
7. Why did Shonagon think that moonlight shining on snow on the roof of common people's houses was unsuitable?
8. Why did the women laugh at the paintings on the sliding screen in Seiryo Palace?
9. Why were Shonagon and the other women disgusted by the response of some of the servants who were carrying attractively wrapped bundles and bags when the women asked them who the packages belonged to?
10. Why didn't the women write their hototogisu poems after going on an outing to hear them sing?
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
Midway through the book we see a shift in Shonagon's writing style to a more developed style of prose. Describe the shift. What changes in her writing style? What does it reveal about Shonagon?
Essay Topic 3
What role did romance play in Shonagon's life? What rules for romance did she have?
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