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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the students behaved watching Moriyama paint?
(a) They asked him questions as he worked.
(b) They told him they thought his painting was marvelous.
(c) They wrote critiques of each painting.
(d) They spoke as though he were not present.

2. What famous Japanese artist does Moriyama emulate?
(a) Fujiyama.
(b) Narita.
(c) Utamaro.
(d) Kirukama.

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

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

5. How does Sugimura plan to leave his mark on the city forever?
(a) By eliminating the pleasure district.
(b) By converting Kawabe Park into the focus of culture.
(c) By holding prestigious auctions for his four houses.
(d) By leaving his fortune to the local university.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matsuda say the world sees when they look at Ono and Matsuda now that the war is behind them?

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

3. Why does the smell of burning make Ono uneasy?

4. What does Ono hope his own students will do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. After re-establishing contact with Matsuda during Noriko's marriage negotiations, what contact have Ono and Matsuda had before Matsuda dies?

2. Why did Moriyama's students never comment directly to him about his paintings?

3. Ono recalls the influence of Moriyama on his own behavior. What does he say he adopted from his teacher?

4. What happened to Moriyama's best student, Sasaki?

5. What does Ono say the New Japan proved about him and about Matsuda?

6. What does Matsuda believe was his and Ono's great misfortune?

7. Why is Ono irritated at Setsuko's insistence that Saito never heard of Ono until the miai?

8. What does Matsuda say the smell of burning most likely means now that the war is long over?

9. Why does Ono admire Sugimura's work on Kawabe Park, even though Sugimura failed to accomplish his goals?

10. Why didn't Moriyama applaud his student's maturing talent as an artist?

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