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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Man doing at the beginning of Scene 7?
(a) Writing calligraphy.
(b) Practicing with his sword.
(c) Meditating.
(d) Sleeping.

2. What is the Man carrying at the beginning of Scene 9?
(a) An injured bird.
(b) A harp.
(c) A bundle of his belongings.
(d) The vase of flowers.

3. What does the Woman understand the Man's confession to mean?
(a) He was playing a joke on her.
(b) He was lying and was a theif.
(c) He came to kill her.
(d) He truly loved her.

4. What does the Man put down at the end of the last scene?
(a) The Woman's kimono.
(b) The vase of flowers.
(c) The flute.
(d) His own bundle.

5. What does the Woman urge the Man to do at the end of the fifth scene?
(a) Leave.
(b) Sing.
(c) Stay with her.
(d) Speak again.

6. What does the Woman say she normally cannot bear?
(a) The darkness.
(b) Her lack of money.
(c) Having no children.
(d) Her own dreams.

7. What does the Man say the Woman has transformed?
(a) The world.
(b) Herself and the world in his eyes.
(c) His heart.
(d) His motivations for living.

8. In the fifth scene, why does the Man excitedly congratulate himself?
(a) He has finished composing a song.
(b) He has found a hidden treasure.
(c) He has learned to play the flute.
(d) He has removed the stain from the floor.

9. What is the Man doing when the Woman asks him to join her in the eighth scene?
(a) Doing chores.
(b) Drinking tea.
(c) Meditating.
(d) Practicing with a sword.

10. When the Man looks through the screen at night in Scene 6, what does he see?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The full moon.
(c) The Woman.
(d) A family of deer.

11. At the beginning of Scene 8, what is the Woman doing?
(a) Modeling a new kimono.
(b) Folding laundry.
(c) Pouring tea.
(d) Practicing with the sword.

12. What does the Man discover happened to him after he stops meditating?
(a) He no longer can see.
(b) He has lost all his money.
(c) He is cut and bleeding under his chin.
(d) His hearing has gone.

13. What falls to the ground at the very end of the play?
(a) Flower petals.
(b) Snowflakes.
(c) Dry leaves.
(d) Raindrops.

14. What does the Woman want the Man to do with the sword when she is scared in Scene 8?
(a) Throw it in the river.
(b) Kill her with it.
(c) Put it away.
(d) Give it to her.

15. What does the Man say he last heard about his friend's condition?
(a) Dead with a smile and a sword through his neck.
(b) Dead, having fought bravely in battle.
(c) A monk devoted to his faith.
(d) Married with many children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Woman wearing in the sixth scene?

2. What reason does the Man say he no longer can stay with the Woman?

3. What does the Man want the Woman to do for him one day in Scene 5?

4. In the last scene, what does the Man ask the Woman to force him to do?

5. What reason does the Woman tell the man to stop telling a story about his friend?

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