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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did MM maintain a low profile during her stay in Uji?

2. What disappointed MM about her travels after the market town?

3. What did MM find hard to do when Fujiwara chose to spend his time with his other wife?

4. For what did MM hope for Fujiwara's first wife after months of poor treatment from her husband?

5. For what did Fujiwara constantly berate his wife during the time she dealt with a death in the family and his own illness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the death of the prince benefit Fujiwara?

2. How did the Prince treat MM and Fujiwara's relationship?

3. After the birth of Tokihime's child, how did Fujiwara ease his way back into MM's life?

4. Why did MM write to Tokihime?

5. How did Fujiwara react to MM's severe depression?

6. Why did MM realize Tokihime had lost favor with Fujiwara?

7. Why did MM begin to make so many pilgrimages?

8. After Fujiwara's illness, how did MM's feelings of dissatisfaction with her lot in life begin to manifest?

9. What happened when Tokihime had another child with Fujiwara?

10. How did Fujiwara justify his actions to MM in his letter to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compose an essay about the short-term and long-term effects of Fujiwara's adultery on his wives and children.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze MM's relationships with both Lady Joganden and the Prince in regards to their society and the protocol of the court.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the ways in which the politics of the Heian period were linked to religious matters.

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