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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: Pages 95 through 136.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did MM discover amidst Fujiwara's belongings early in their marriage?
(a) A book of verse.
(b) A flower.
(c) A note to another woman.
(d) A drawing of a nude woman.

2. What favor did Fujiwara ask MM to do for his first wife?
(a) Help her in childbirth.
(b) Cook her dinner.
(c) Sew baby clothes.
(d) Pray for her.

3. What did Fujiwara suggest that MM should do if she was dissatisfied with him as a spouse?
(a) Become a nun.
(b) Leave the village.
(c) Become a better wife.
(d) Find another husband.

4. What did MM assume about Fujiwara's first wife when he began to stay with her again?
(a) She had lost favor with him.
(b) She had gotten sick.
(c) She had kicked him out.
(d) She was pregnant again.

5. What cruel practice does Fujiwara make with his first wife that hurts MM more than anything in the early days of his relationship with both of them?
(a) He flaunted his child with Tokihime.
(b) He rode past his house with MM with Tokihime.
(c) He told everyone Michitsuna was Tokihime's son.
(d) He told everyone MM was Tokihime's servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many days was Fujiwara seriously ill?

2. What words did MM's child begin to repeat after hearing his father say it repeatedly?

3. After mourning for a year, what did MM and her family purify?

4. What was MM's fear after she learned of her husband's affair with his first wife?

5. How did Fujiwara respond to the Prince's actions with his wife?

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