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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. In the section titled "I Was Standing in a Corridor," what were the servants carrying?
3. How many women got in the carriage to go hear the hototogisu singing?
4. What tree did pilgrims returning from Mitake often bring back branches of?
5. In "It Is So Stiflingly Hot," who did the woman in the house with the open lattice receive a letter from?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did dried hollyhock produce fond memories?
2. Why was it considered such a bad thing for Masahiro to leave his shoes on the serving-board?
3. Why did the women hit one another with gruel sticks?
4. 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?
5. Why did the women laugh at the paintings on the sliding screen in Seiryo Palace?
6. Why did the name of the water-plantain amuse Shonagon?
7. What made Shonagon come into the Empress's apartments after she left because the screens with the paintings of Hell frightened her?
8. Why did Shonagon change her opinion of the blossom of the pear tree?
9. What did Narimasa do in the section titled "When the Empress Moved" that indicated he was attracted to Shonagon?
10. Why did Shonagon find it annoying when a man who was not more than an acquaintance came for a casual chat?
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 living at court affect Shonagon's view of the world? How did she feel about ordinary, but necessary, things? Was her view of the world realistic?
Essay Topic 3
What role did romance play in Shonagon's life? What rules for romance did she have?
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