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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Noriko's behavior change during the miai?
(a) She abruptly leaves the table.
(b) She begins to relax.
(c) She becomes talkative and lively.
(d) She becomes increasingly silent and distressed.

3. What is going in on both sides of Mrs. Kawakami's establishment?
(a) Office buildings.
(b) Hotels.
(c) Restaurants.
(d) More modern bars.

4. Who is Ichiro actually pretending to be when he imagines himself on horseback?
(a) A samurai warrior.
(b) The Ninja of the wind.
(c) The Lone Ranger.
(d) Roy Rogers.

5. Why did Ono as a young boy dread his father's business meetings?
(a) The incense in the room made it hard to breathe.
(b) He hated his father.
(c) He couldn't understand what his father said.
(d) He was being punished.

6. Why doesn't Ono share his feelings about the old pleasure district with Mrs. Kawakami?
(a) It would be tactless because the old days are dear to her.
(b) Ono knows she's too old to rebuild.
(c) Ono knows she doesn't wish for the old days.
(d) Ono knows she is relieved to be through with the old days.

7. What does Mrs. Kawakami call the pleasure district since the war?
(a) A ghetto.
(b) A boomtown.
(c) A desert.
(d) A graveyard.

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

9. How does Noriko persuade Ichiro to help her clear away the breakfast things?
(a) By threatening to send him to his room.
(b) By telling him she's not strong enough to put the table away.
(c) By telling him she will give him a treat.
(d) By threatening him with a time out.

10. What had the wandering priest warned Ono's parents about him?
(a) That his weak streak gave him a tendency toward disrespect and disobedience.
(b) That he was headstrong and stubborn.
(c) That he had no talents.
(d) That his weak streak gave him a tendency toward slothfulness and deceit.

11. Which of the sisters is older?
(a) They are twins.
(b) Setsuko.
(c) We are not told.
(d) Noriko.

12. What is taking the place of the bars of the old pleasure district?
(a) Geisha houses.
(b) Residences.
(c) Theaters and restaurants.
(d) Businesses.

13. According to Suichi, Ichiro's father, why does Ono quit painting?
(a) Because he is too old.
(b) Because Japan lost the war.
(c) Because he has lost his skill.
(d) Because he lost interest in art.

14. Who does Ichiro's father, Suichi, think makes good role models for Ichiro?
(a) Japanese heroes.
(b) Samurai warriors.
(c) American heroes.
(d) Ninja fighters.

15. How does Shintaro embarrass Mrs. Kawakami?
(a) By expressing admiration for a war criminal.
(b) By drinking too much.
(c) By changing his painting style.
(d) By joking too loudly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a miai?

2. How does Mr. Saito feel about the demonstrations in the streets?

3. Why does Noriko say that Ono is making progress?

4. How does Ono describe Noriko and Setsuko?

5. How does Noriko's behavior appear during the first part of the miai?

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