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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who designed the gardens at the Baron's estate?
(a) The Baron's father.
(b) The Baron.
(c) Arashino.
(d) The Baron's grandfather.

2. What does Sayuri realize she is when the American soldiers roll through her village?
(a) A peasant.
(b) Ungrateful.
(c) Different from other women.
(d) Old.

3. What event is Sayuri referring to when she states: "...there did finally come a time when even the pinpoint of light in which we'd managed to keep ourselves suddenly went out" in chapter 28?
(a) The arrival of the military police at the Nitta okiya.
(b) The General's sudden death.
(c) Korin's fire and subsequent job in the factory.
(d) The end of the tea rations.

4. What does Chiyo think she's seen in the maids' room when she returns to the okiya in chapter 7?
(a) A rat.
(b) A cat.
(c) Hatsumomo.
(d) Pumpkin.

5. How does Hatsumomo paint her lips?
(a) She paints the full shape of both of the lips.
(b) She paints a pouty expression on the lower lip and the full shape of the upper lip.
(c) She paints a circle shape.
(d) She paints just the lower lip.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Around which year does the narrator say Chiyo arrives in Kyoto?

3. What topic of conversation does Sayuri use at the beginning of chapter 25 to make an example of various geisha's talent for making conversation?

4. What is the exchange system by which everyday things are bought and sold in Gion called in the novel?

5. What color is the fabric used to create an apprentice geisha's hairstyle?

(see the answer key)

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