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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 Yukinari's title?
2. What gate at the house of the Senior Steward was too small for the carriage Shonagon and the other ladies rode in?
3. What was the residence of the Major Captain of the Smaller Palace of the First Ward called?
4. What plant did Shonagon think made an "uncommonly pretty" design on figured silk?
5. What tree did Shonagon say had a vulgar name?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the name of the water-plantain amuse Shonagon?
2. In "Smaller Shirakawa," why did Shonagon and her companions leave the morning service early?
3. Why didn't Shonagon like the husbands of nurse-maids?
4. Why did Shonagon and the other women often have to stay away from the Palace?
5. Why was it depressing for someone to wear a white under-robe in the Eighth Month?
6. In "It Is Hateful When a Well-Bred Young Man," why did Shonagan think it was proper for a gentleman to bring along a man when he went to visit a lady-in-waiting?
7. How did Shonagon describe the life of a priest?
8. Why did dried hollyhock produce fond memories?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does The Pillow Book cross lines between being a work of non-fiction and a work of fiction? What elements of fiction does it contain?
Essay Topic 2
What is the significance of The Pillow Book? Why is it important to Japanese history? What is it's linguistic significance?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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