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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Taeko?
(a) 42.
(b) 19.
(c) 31.
(d) 25.

2. Why does Yukiko refuse to marry Nomura?
(a) He does not want to allow her to work.
(b) Because of the shrine to his wife and children he is keeping.
(c) He is not rich enough.
(d) He is too hold for her.

3. How old was Taeko when she tried to elope?
(a) 21.
(b) 25.
(c) 18.
(d) 19.

4. What do Taeko, Sachiko and Teinosuke think during the dinner?
(a) That the food is too cooked.
(b) That the portions of food are too large.
(c) That the hosts talk too much.
(d) That the house is too small.

5. What happens to Teinosuke on his way to Taeko's school?
(a) He almost drowns.
(b) He gets lost.
(c) He saves a child.
(d) He helps push a car off the road.

6. What is not a crucial objection about Nomura?
(a) He is not as well connected the main house would like.
(b) He is not as old as the main house would like.
(c) He is not as rich as the main house would like.
(d) He is older than the main house would like.

7. What declines during the 1930s?
(a) The Japanese economy.
(b) The Makioka's influence on the Emperor.
(c) The Japanese influence.
(d) The Makioka fortune.

8. Whose clothes does Taeko wear when coming back home according to Book II Chapter 12?
(a) Her teacher's.
(b) Her classmates's.
(c) A change of clothes she brought to school.
(d) Itakura's sister's.

9. Where is the main house of the Makioka family?
(a) Kobe.
(b) Tokyo.
(c) Kyoto.
(d) Osaka.

10. What does Taeko plan on giving up according to Book II, Chapters 1-5?
(a) Dance.
(b) Her wedding plans.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Doll making.

11. How many sisters form the Makioka family according to Book I, Chapters 1-9?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

12. Who did the newspaper report as trying to elope?
(a) Etsuko.
(b) Turiko.
(c) Sachiko.
(d) Yukiko.

13. Who walks Etuko to school every morning?
(a) Yukiko.
(b) Teinosuke.
(c) O-Haru.
(d) Sachiko.

14. When did Katherina leave Russia?
(a) When her father died.
(b) When the Communists took power.
(c) In 1929.
(d) After her birth.

15. What does the visitor inquiring about Taeko bring?
(a) His umbrella.
(b) His boat.
(c) His camera.
(d) His car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Taeko's plan have Sachiko think?

2. What does Sachiko plan to take Etsuko to?

3. Why does Sachiko not want to urge Yukiko about a new suitor?

4. Where do Sachiko, Taeko, Yukiko and Etsuko go to see the cherry blossoms?

5. Who has final say in the decision to marry Yukiko to Segoshi?

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