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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the corporation offer Mrs. Kawakami?
(a) To buy her out for a generous sum.
(b) To fund remodeling of her business.
(c) To go into partnership with her.
(d) To fund an expansion into the adjoining buildings.

2. How does Ono react when he learns that Mitsuo attends school where Kuroda teaches?
(a) He assures them that Kuroda would speak well of him.
(b) He says that Kuroda would not have a high opinion of him.
(c) He denies ever knowing Kuroda.
(d) He praises Kuroda's work.

3. Why does Ono's wife object to being investigated to get the house?
(a) She thought it would cost them money.
(b) She thought it would interfere with her daughters' marriage chances.
(c) She thought her secret would be discovered.
(d) She thought the sellers had no right to check on them.

4. What does Matsuda say the world sees when they look at Ono and Matsuda now that the war is behind them?
(a) Two old men with sticks.
(b) Two instigators of a war.
(c) Two failed imperialists.
(d) Two traitors to their country.

5. What does Matsuda say the smell of burning means now that the war is over?
(a) Bombs are falling.
(b) Someone is barbecuing.
(c) A house is burning.
(d) A neighbor is clearing his garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the atmosphere of the miai change after Ono's confession?

2. Why does Ono believe that the Tortoise or Shintaro will never feel the sort of happiness he felt sitting on the hillside?

3. What does Setsuko say in Kawabe Park that irritates Ono?

4. Why does Ono introduce Kenji into the conversation in Noriko's kitchen?

5. What is always somewhere in a Moriyama painting?

(see the answer key)

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