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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the art students treat Sasaki when he changes his style?
(a) They burned his work in the courtyard.
(b) They criticized him in public.
(c) They gave him a goodbye party and sent him away.
(d) They hid his paintings and refused to speak to him.

2. What is the mood of Moriyama's paintings?
(a) Melancholy and nocturnal.
(b) Bright and sunny.
(c) Black and depressed.
(d) Cheerful and multicolored.

3. How does Ono feel about the future of Japan?
(a) The best times are behind them.
(b) There is a chance to make a better go of things.
(c) Their world is permanently ruined.
(d) The destruction will never be forgotten.

4. What does Ono say during his last conversation with Matsuda about his present-day perspective on life?
(a) It is all-encompassing and not bound by political borders.
(b) It is broader and includes the whole country.
(c) It is skewed by the damage done by the war.
(d) It is still narrow and doesn't extend much beyond the city.

5. How do the new apartment buildings under construction look to Ono?
(a) They could be mistaken for bombed ruins.
(b) They are beautiful.
(c) They are ugly and too modern.
(d) They are a sign of progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ono perceive Shintaro's nature now that his old friend no longer comes to Mrs. Kawakami's?

2. What had Ono completed the same week he received the award?

3. What is a miai?

4. Why does Ono come to admire Moriyama's treatment of his students?

5. How does Setsuko make up to Ono for Noriko's excluding him from the outing?

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