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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the pillow a geisha uses to protect her hairstyle filled with?
(a) Rice.
(b) Wheat chaff.
(c) Barley hulls.
(d) Barley.

2. What happens to a geisha who marries?
(a) She is disgraced.
(b) They become legends.
(c) She no longer continues as a geisha.
(d) Nothing, since geisha cannot marry.

3. What does Mameha say generous people don't do?
(a) Become teahouse owners.
(b) Become geisha.
(c) Become patrons of geisha.
(d) Become okiya owners.

4. Sayuri compares Hatsumomo's beauty to that of an object someone had shown her some years after the story took place. What was the object?
(a) A spur.
(b) A pistol.
(c) A sword.
(d) A whip.

5. Why does Pumpkin have so much trouble in music class?
(a) She can't sing.
(b) She has a hard time paying attention.
(c) She doesn't have much of an ear.
(d) She can't read music.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hatsumiyo?

2. Who did Mameha's older sister have an affair with?

3. What does Hatsumomo say her paulownia wood is for?

4. In chapter 12 what does the narrator say she did NOT study?

5. What are ohana?

(see the answer key)

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