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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Scar, In the Rain, and The Cluster of Mosquitoes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many fifteen-year-old girls had legal abortions?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

2. What were two neighborhood girls using for dishes in the neighborhood play house?
(a) Abalone Shells and Yatsude leaves.
(b) Clay.
(c) Shards of dishes.
(d) Walnut shells and maple leaves.

3. What type of flowers does Kikuko have by a tea tray in Chapter 9?
(a) Sunflowers.
(b) Black lilies.
(c) Hyachinths.
(d) Chrysanthemums.

4. Where does a friend make reservations to meet Shingo after they have dinner and then sit in the bar?
(a) Shiodome geisha district.
(b) Asakusa geisha district.
(c) Shimbashi geisha district.
(d) Tsukiji geisha district.

5. n Chapter 3, to whom does Yasuko say that a kerchief belonged to that Fusako had?
(a) Yasuko's brother.
(b) Fusako.
(c) Kikuko.
(d) Yasuko's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Tanizaki when the man she loved died in the war?

2. How did Viscount Takagi die?

3. In Section 2 of "A Blaze of Clouds," what does Yasuko reach for every time the house shakes?

4. How old was a woman who disappeared with her husband?

5. In Chapter 13, what color flowers grow in front of the house that had sunflowers growing last year?

(see the answer key)

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