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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ono admire Sugimura?
(a) He was a skilled landscape designer.
(b) He aspired to fame.
(c) He aspired to make a fortune.
(d) He aspired to rise above mediocrity.

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

3. What does Moriyama wish to accomplish with his students?
(a) To change modern art in Europe.
(b) To spread their art throughout the world.
(c) To spread their art throughout Japan.
(d) To change painting in their city to conform to his idea of style.

4. What is always somewhere in a Moriyama painting?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A lotus.
(c) A lantern.
(d) A teapot.

5. What does the visiting Gisaburo say about nights in the floating world?
(a) All artists seek the light of day.
(b) Only drunkards find value in that which fades in the morning.
(c) The worst things happen in the darkness.
(d) The best things are put together at night and vanish in the morning.

6. What brought about the chances in Moriyama's standing?
(a) He had changed his European style.
(b) His European style was increasingly admired.
(c) He had returned to traditional Japanese art.
(d) His European style was seen as unpatriotic.

7. What news does Ono give Matsuda about himself?
(a) He has stopped painting.
(b) He is considering marriage again.
(c) He has started painting again.
(d) He has taken up horticulture.

8. Why does Ono come to admire Moriyama's treatment of his students?
(a) Ono believes students' comments are mere flattery.
(b) Ono believes students often know more than their teachers.
(c) Ono believes it is foolish to waste time discussing each comment.
(d) Ono believes it is important for students to develop their own thinking.

9. What does Matsuda's neighbor boy do each day?
(a) He climbs a tree to watch Matsuda feed the fish.
(b) He comes to visit.
(c) He climbs up on the wall between the houses.
(d) He feeds the fish.

10. Why does Matsuda envy Ono?
(a) Ono is wealthier.
(b) Ono's work is more admired.
(c) Ono has better health.
(d) Ono is more handsome.

11. Who does Matsuda claim has been blamed for Japan's downfall?
(a) The emperor and his household.
(b) The voting public.
(c) Military men, politicians, and businessmen.
(d) Artists and musicians.

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

13. Why does the Tortoise often destroy his own paintings?
(a) Because he could never satisfy his own plan.
(b) Because Moriyama did not like them.
(c) Because Ono did not like them.
(d) Because Sasaki, the leading pupil, called them "disloyal".

14. Why does the songwriter Naguchi commit suicide?
(a) No one had appreciated his music.
(b) His songs had been used to promote war.
(c) His songs had been misunderstood.
(d) He had a terminal illness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Matsuda describe the contribution he and Ono made?

2. What does the neighbor boy do when Matsuda speaks to him?

3. What does Noriko like about her apartment?

4. What honor had Ono received in 1938?

5. What happened to Moriyama after Ono left his school?

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