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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which role does Mameha dance in "A Courtier Returns to His Wife"?
(a) The wife.
(b) The mistress.
(c) The courtier.
(d) The empress.

2. What does the bank director keep telling Mameha and Sayuri to do while they are in the hot springs?
(a) Fetch a pebble or a twig from the woods at the edge of the springs.
(b) Take their kimono off.
(c) Do a little dance in the water.
(d) Stand up so their top halves are exposed.

3. Why does Mameha suggest Sayuri wishes she could be like the geisha Shizue?
(a) Shizue was prettier than any other geisha.
(b) Shizue could make conversation better than any other geisha.
(c) Shizue was financially more successful than any other geisha.
(d) Shizue was mistress to a man she was truly fond of.

4. Who does the Chairman say has left him alone at the Ichiriki?
(a) The maid.
(b) The mistress.
(c) Mameha.
(d) Nobu.

5. Hatsumomo shows Mother and Sayuri her bowl and jokes that her food looks like Nobu's blistered skin. What is she eating?
(a) Mashed plums.
(b) Rice and red beans.
(c) Dried peaches.
(d) A bowl of noodles.

6. What does Sayuri tell the Chairman he should do during their brief encounter in chapter 26?
(a) He should be nicer to the apprentice geisha.
(b) He should invite her to entertain at a party.
(c) He should arrange for her to see Nobu.
(d) He should be careful not to drink so much.

7. What made-up story does Nobu tell when it's his turn to play "Big Liar"?
(a) He has met a number of demons.
(b) There's a man living in his well.
(c) He arrived at the office late yesterday.
(d) He came home to find his white dog turning colors.

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

9. Whom does Sayuri say she's waiting for before she returns to Gion?
(a) Mameha.
(b) Pumpkin.
(c) The General.
(d) Mother.

10. Where has Nobu arranged to send Sayuri?
(a) To the Chairman's estate.
(b) To Mr. Arashino's estate.
(c) To the Baron's estate.
(d) To Mr. Tachibana's estate.

11. What does Mameha tell Sayuri that the Kaburenjo Theater has been turned into?
(a) A teahouse.
(b) A brothel.
(c) A kyabarei.
(d) An okiya.

12. What does Sayuri notice about the Chairman during the many weeks of entertaining the Minister?
(a) He isn't as kind as she thought.
(b) He doesn't look exactly the way she remembered him.
(c) He isn't as good of friends with Nobu as she thought.
(d) He hides his emotions so that no one can tell what he's feeling.

13. How many years have passed since the Chairman told Sayuri about his feelings by the end of the narration?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Ten.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Forty.

14. What does Sayuri do during her costume change in chapter 23?
(a) She watches the other geisha getting ready.
(b) She imagines that the Chairman is in the audience.
(c) She goes over her dance in her mind.
(d) She peeks out at the audience.

15. What is Sayuri's primary job at the Arashinos?
(a) Gathering roots.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Dying fabrics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has it been since Sayuri saw Nobu when the geisha districts are about to be closed down?

2. What does Sayuri find in Hatsumomo's room while trying to retrieve her journal?

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?

4. What language does Pumpkin claim the fish spoke in her story at the Ichiriki?

5. Which of the geisha Sayuri knew dies in Tokyo during the war?

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