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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the exchange system by which everyday things are bought and sold in Gion called in the novel?
(a) The gray market.
(b) The black market.
(c) The red market.
(d) The housewives' market.

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) Do a little dance in the water.
(c) Stand up so their top halves are exposed.
(d) Take their kimono off.

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

4. Who tells Sayuri that everything is fine after the Baron has misused her?
(a) Nobu.
(b) Mr. Itchoda.
(c) Mameha.
(d) The Chairman.

5. 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 mistress to a man she was truly fond of.
(d) Shizue was financially more successful than any other geisha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mameha do during the war?

2. What does Sayuri tell the Chairman he should do during their brief encounter in chapter 26?

3. How does the Baron plan to punish Mameha for embarrassing him?

4. What does the Chairman present to the Baron as a gift?

5. What does Pumpkin say the Minister looks like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sayuri realize she can do to keep Nobu out of her life forever?

2. Explain why Sayuri needs to leave Gion after the Chairman becomes her danna and what arrangements are made for her to do so.

3. How does Mother deal with Hatsumomo's rage when the latter finds out that Mother won't be adopting Pumpkin?

4. What does the Chairman say he believes Sayuri's reason is for having seduced the Minister?

5. What does the Minister do that so angers Nobu at the end of chapter 32?

6. How does the rumor get started that Hatsumomo has been declared mentally unstable?

7. What stories does Sayuri tell when it's her turn to play "Big Liar"?

8. Describe Sayuri's encounter with Yasuda Akira and what she learns from it.

9. What does Sayuri realize regarding Nobu and the Chairman at the end of chapter 24, and how does she find out?

10. How does Sayuri experience her mizuage?

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