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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Ono considered as a potential buyer for the Sugimura house?
(a) The sisters' deceased father owed Ono a debt.
(b) The sisters'deceased father had been a relative.
(c) The sisters' deceased father had respected his art.
(d) The sisters' deceased father had known of his wealth.

2. What does Ono believe is more shameful than one's past mistakes?
(a) Failing to learn from them.
(b) Being unable or unwilling to acknowledge them.
(c) Continuing to make the same mistakes.
(d) Encouraging others to commit the same mistakes.

3. What does Ono's father do with his paintings?
(a) He sold them.
(b) He burned them.
(c) He took them to a teacher.
(d) He took them to an appraiser.

4. What quality does Ono say the arguments and banter of the old days always had?
(a) Sincerity.
(b) Duplicity.
(c) Sorrow.
(d) Confusion.

5. What does Shintaro want Ono to do for him?
(a) Verify that Shintaro had done the posters against his will.
(b) Recommend his artwork.
(c) Verify that Shintaro had created the posters.
(d) Claim that Ono had painted the posters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the new apartment buildings under construction look to Ono?

2. What had the wandering priest warned Ono's parents about him?

3. On what basis do the Sugimura sisters select a buyer for their house?

4. Why does Ono decide to watch Metsuo during the miai?

5. What does Shintaro paint now that the war is over?

(see the answer key)

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