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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. In the section titled "One Day When the Emperor Visited Her Majesty's Rooms" what did the Emperor bring with him on his visit?
2. In the section titled "Once When I Was Passing," what color were the inside blinds on the palm-leaf carriage Shonagon described?
3. What did the bedraggled and injured dog do that convinced Shonagon he was Okinamaro?
4. What was painted on the paper-door of Lord Akinobu's house?
5. What did Shonagon say gentlemen should always have lest she find them boring?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why didn't the women write their hototogisu poems after going on an outing to hear them sing?
2. What caused Hitachi no Suke to stop coming to the Palace?
3. Why did the women laugh at the paintings on the sliding screen in Seiryo Palace?
4. Why did the women hit one another with gruel sticks?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. What did Narimasa do in the section titled "When the Empress Moved" that indicated he was attracted to Shonagon?
8. What made Shonagon come into the Empress's apartments after she left because the screens with the paintings of Hell frightened her?
9. Why did the Empress give the old nun, whom the women later dubbed Hitachi no Suke, one of her own robes?
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
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?
Essay Topic 2
What was the significance of rituals in Shonagon's life? How did they add structure to her life and what did she think of them?
Essay Topic 3
What is the significance of The Pillow Book? Why is it important to Japanese history? What is it's linguistic significance?
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