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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. Why does Komako blame Shimamura for sleeping with her?
(a) Because Komako was drunk.
(b) Because Shimamura is married.
(c) Because Shimamura was too weak to sleep with the geisha.
(d) Because Shimamura is older than Komako.

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

3. What does Komako refuse to close one day when she is staying at the inn with Shimamura?
(a) A window.
(b) A door.
(c) A book.
(d) A cabinet.

4. What does Shimamura hear, which he says 'rings out clearly'?
(a) A woman's voice.
(b) An alarm.
(c) A singing bird.
(d) A church bell.

5. How is Komako described by the old woman Shimamura meets in the latter half of Part One ?
(a) As popular with men.
(b) As a wonderful dancer.
(c) As the best musician around.
(d) As a dangerous woman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Komako's complaint when she calls to Shimamura from the hallway?

3. Why is Shimamura told that there are no geishas available?

4. Why does Komako have to leave Shimamura's room before daylight?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Komako's condition when she shows up at Shimamura's room in the middle of the night on his first visit to the resort town?

2. How does Komako express her liking of Shimamura when she visits his room at the inn on his second visit to the resort town?

3. What distracts Shimamura after leaving his inn and the young geisha, and what does he do?

4. What does Shimamura notice about Yoko's care of her sick companion?

5. Describe Komako's situation at the time of her first meeting with Shimamura.

6. Why were there no geisha available when Shimamura requested one?

7. Where does Shimamura go the day after his night with Komako, and why might he have left?

8. What secrets about herself does Komako reveal when she visits Shimamura's room at night during his second visit to the resort town?

9. What symbolism does Shimamura see in the reflection of Yoko's face in the window?

10. Why doesn't the young geisha sent to Shimamura interest him?

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