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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 caused the lamp to tip when Masahiro was responsible for filling the lamps with oil?
2. Who was the Empress' sister?
3. What kind of pond did Shonagon like best?
4. In "When His Excellency, the Chancellor, Had Departed" who reminded Shonagon of the next line of a poem she had forgotten?
5. What kind of wood was the round brazier the Empress sat before when Shonagon came to visit in her early days as a lady-in-waiting?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Shonagon say that a woman who leaves home because she is angry with her husband has lost power?
2. Why was Shonagon so impressed with Michinaga's obeisance to the Chancellor?
3. Why did Shonagon think it was important to keep ones inkstone and writing utensil in good condition?
4. Why was Nobukata upset by Shonagon's response to his inquiry about how she felt about the poem "had not yet reached the term of thirty?"
5. Why did the Empress keep the note Yukinari sent with the square cakes?
6. Why was Shonagon impressed when the Empress guessed that the cherry blossoms had been ruined by the rain?
7. Why did Shonagon say a man who had been promoted from Subordinate Officer to Chamberlain seemed like he had been reborn?
8. Why did Shonagon spend a long time at home after the Chancellor's death?
9. Why did Shonagon prefer that the envoys in the Special Festival at Kamo keep their faces concealed with wisteria?
10. When the ladies visited the guard house in "While We Were in Mourning for the Chancellor" why did the guards get angry with them?
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
What was Shonagon's relationship with Tanadobu? How did the two treat each other? How did Shonagon feel about him? How did he feel about her?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze at least three of the poems written by Shonagon that are included in The Pillow Book. What does each poem mean? What imagery does Shonagon use? Do her poems have a common theme?
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