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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 37-51.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What hateful thing did Shonagon say some elderly people did when warming their hands over a brazier?
(a) Counted their age spots.
(b) Rubbed their hands together.
(c) Slept.
(d) Stretched out their wrinkles.
2. What was Yukinari's title?
(a) Controller First Secretary.
(b) Emperor.
(c) Middle Counsellor.
(d) Chamberlain.
3. What was painted on the screens carried in the Empress's apartments on the day after the Naming of the Buddhas?
(a) A temple.
(b) The sea.
(c) Hell.
(d) Heaven.
4. What did Shonagon see someone spreading on the ground while traveling in her carriage one day?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Straw mats.
(d) Seeds.
5. What did Shonagon think small children and babies should look like?
(a) Willow trees.
(b) Plump.
(c) Puppies.
(d) Tall.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "A Lover's Visit," what did Shonagon find irritating about servants who arrived with the lover?
2. What color did Shonagon say a cat's back should be?
3. What did Yukinari tell Shonagon he was saying to the woman she saw him speaking with near the garden fence?
4. What gate at the house of the Senior Steward was too small for the carriage Shonagon and the other ladies rode in?
5. What bird did Shonagon say she liked even though it did not belong to her country?
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