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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are "zori"?
(a) Pants.
(b) Boats.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Fish.

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

4. 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?
(a) She keeps stopping in place.
(b) She keeps pressing her hands together the wrong way.
(c) She keeps making noises when she bows.
(d) She keeps bowing too deeply.

5. How does Sayuri say the young actor she met at the party died a few years after they met?
(a) He fell off a bridge in Gion.
(b) He killed himself with a sword.
(c) He was killed by a waitress.
(d) He died of drug overdose.

6. Why is Sayuri worried that Mameha wants Nobu to become her danna?
(a) It would ruin her chances of any relationship with the Chairman.
(b) She doesn't think she will ever have sufficient status to have a man like Nobu as a danna.
(c) She can't stand to look at his face.
(d) She is worried what Hatsumomo will think.

7. What word does Nobu use to characterize geisha naming traditions?
(a) Esteemed.
(b) Foolish.
(c) Venerable.
(d) Ridiculous.

8. What does Sayuri compare herself to in explaining to Pumpkin the desperate situation she's in?
(a) An ant.
(b) A maid.
(c) A cockroach.
(d) A zucchini.

9. What does Chiyo say regularly complicates the task of doing her chores?
(a) Pumpkin.
(b) Her need to cry.
(c) Sitting with Granny.
(d) Her hunger.

10. What does Sayuri say she felt happened to Chiyo?
(a) Gion had destroyed her.
(b) Hatsumomo had destroyed her.
(c) Sayuri had destroyed her.
(d) Mameha had destroyed her.

11. Which teahouse does Mameha entertain Dr. Crab at the end of chapter 20?
(a) At the Shirae.
(b) At the Mizuki.
(c) At the Ichiriki.
(d) At the Yashino.

12. What does Mameha tell Sayuri to show to men when she's filling their teacups?
(a) More charm.
(b) Her arm.
(c) More respect.
(d) The nape of her neck.

13. Where is the ceremony performed that ties Pumpkin and Hatsumomo together as sisters?
(a) By the Shirakawa Stream.
(b) At the Nitta okiya.
(c) At the Mizuki Teahouse.
(d) At the Gion Shrine.

14. Why does Mameha say Hatsumomo is trying to make Pumpkin look good?
(a) To improve Hatsumomo's own reputation.
(b) So that Mother will adopt her.
(c) She cares about Pumpkin's success.
(d) It's a matter of her integrity as a geisha.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hatsumomo say Mameha is trying to drive her out of Gion?

2. What happened the same month that Sayuri first met the Chairman?

3. What problem does Sayuri have in trying to pour tea for the Chairman in chapter 17?

4. Which element does Chiyo's father have too much of in his personality?

5. What does the Baron make Mameha remove from its place in her apartment?

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