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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Setsuko say in Kawabe Park that irritates Ono?
(a) That it would be appropriate for him to consider suicide.
(b) That everyone was surprised at his self-incrimination during the miai.
(c) That she is ashamed of his behavior.
(d) That he had embarrassed the family during the miai.

2. What does Ono advise Mrs. Kawakami to do?
(a) Refuse to sell her place.
(b) Accept the builders' offer to buy her place.
(c) Stand and fight for her place.
(d) Hold out for a higher offer.

3. How does Setsuko make up to Ono for Noriko's excluding him from the outing?
(a) She insists that he be invited to come along.
(b) She berates her sister for her rudeness.
(c) She cancels the trip to go to the cinema with him.
(d) She decides to stay home with him.

4. What does Ono mean when he talks of the art students "slanging" one another?
(a) They wrote unpleasant critiques of one another's work.
(b) They wrote slurs about one another.
(c) They shouted good-humored insults across the yard.
(d) They destroyed each other's paintings.

5. What does Ono think about the spirit of the old floating world?
(a) Perhaps it will never be recreated.
(b) Perhaps it was not always for the best.
(c) Perhaps it will be reborn at some point.
(d) Perhaps it was the best we will ever know.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is taking the place of the bars of the old pleasure district?

2. How does Shintaro embarrass Mrs. Kawakami?

3. What does Mrs. Kawakami call the pleasure district since the war?

4. How does Ono feel about the demonstrations in the streets?

5. How does Mrs. Kawakami's bar seem to Ono while the construction is under way?

(see the answer key)

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