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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One, Pages 65 - 87.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before she stumbles into Shimamura's room, who has Komako spent the evening with?
(a) Her friends.
(b) A patron.
(c) A lover.
(d) Some travelers.

2. What relationship does Shimamura want with Komako?
(a) Friendship.
(b) An employer/employee relationship.
(c) A romantic relationship.
(d) No relationship at all.

3. What is the temperature in snow country?
(a) Ten degrees.
(b) Below zero.
(c) Minus twenty degrees.
(d) Unseasonably warm.

4. What does Komako find strange that Shimamura hadn't mentioned?
(a) That Shimamura will be leaving for Tokyo.
(b) That Shimamura is married.
(c) That Shimamura is interested in Yoko.
(d) That Shimamura had seen her at the train station.

5. What does Shimamura wonder about when he's on the train?
(a) Whether the train will reach Tokyo on time
(b) Whether Yukio is dead.
(c) Whether Yoko loves Yukio.
(d) Whether the weather will stay clear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Komako's purpose in creating her catalog?

2. What does Shimamura say he let himself believe about the young geisha?

3. What reason does the old woman give for Komako having become a geisha?

4. What does Komako write in her diary?

5. What does Shimamura hear, which he says 'rings out clearly'?

(see the answer key)

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