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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are ohana?
(a) Offerings to the geisha.
(b) Incense sticks.
(c) Offerings to the Teahouse mistress.
(d) A geisha's nightly fee.

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

3. What does Hatsumomo make sure Pumpkin and Chiyo never do again?
(a) Do their chores together.
(b) Laugh together.
(c) Talk to each other.
(d) Practice shamisen together.

4. What is Chiyo asked to deliver to Hatsumomo in chapter 7?
(a) Her tortoiseshell hairpin.
(b) Her shamisen.
(c) Her brooch.
(d) Her obi.

5. Around which year does the narrator say Chiyo arrives in Kyoto?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hatsumomo's boyfriend do for a living?

2. Why does Pumpkin have so much trouble in music class?

3. What does Mr. Tanaka write has happened to Satsu?

4. Where is the ceremony performed that ties Pumpkin and Hatsumomo together as sisters?

5. What does Chiyo keep doing when she bows on the street with Mameha that causes Mameha to pull her into an alley and show her the proper way of bowing?

(see the answer key)

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