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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 dried plant evoked a memory from the past in the section titled "Things That Arouse a Fond Memory From the Past?"
2. What color did Shonagon say oxen's bellies should be?
3. What did Shonagon see someone spreading on the ground while traveling in her carriage one day?
4. What color did Shonagon say a cat's back should be?
5. What gate at the house of the Senior Steward was too small for the carriage Shonagon and the other ladies rode in?
Short Essay Questions
1. The herbal balls hung on the pillars of the Empress' palace during the Festival of the Fifth Month were supposed to last until the next Chrysanthemum Festival. Why didn't they last until then?
2. Why did the women laugh at the paintings on the sliding screen in Seiryo Palace?
3. What caused Hitachi no Suke to stop coming to the Palace?
4. What made Shonagon come into the Empress's apartments after she left because the screens with the paintings of Hell frightened her?
5. Why did Shonagon say that young herbs peeking through the snow were unexpected near the Palace?
6. Why did the Empress scold Shonagon when she complained that people would see the women looking shabby as they entered the house because the gate was too small?
7. Why was it considered such a bad thing for Masahiro to leave his shoes on the serving-board?
8. Why did the name of the water-plantain amuse Shonagon?
9. What did Narimasa do in the section titled "When the Empress Moved" that indicated he was attracted to Shonagon?
10. Why did Shonagon send her brother a piece of seaweed in reply to his letter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
How did Shonagon treat men differently from women? What did she say about each? Whom does she compliment? What might account for the differences in the way she treated men and women?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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