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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. What did Shonagon think small children and babies should look like?
2. Who brought a Chamberlain who belonged to the Imperial Guard a cup of wine when he brought a message to an Imperial consort?
3. What did His Majesty ask Shonagon and the others to write down on a folded piece of paper following dinner?
4. What did Shonagon say a well-bred young man should never do when visiting a woman of lower rank?
5. What hateful thing did Shonagon say some elderly people did when warming their hands over a brazier?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Shonagon describe the life of a priest?
2. What caused Hitachi no Suke to stop coming to the Palace?
3. Why were Shonagon and the other women disgusted by the response of some of the servants who were carrying attractively wrapped bundles and bags when the women asked them who the packages belonged to?
4. Why did dried hollyhock produce fond memories?
5. Why did the name of the water-plantain amuse Shonagon?
6. Why did Shonagon change her opinion of the blossom of the pear tree?
7. Why did Shonagon find it annoying when a man who was not more than an acquaintance came for a casual chat?
8. The herbal balls hung on the pillars of the Empress' palace during the Festival of the Fifth Month were supposed to last until the next Chrysanthemum Festival. Why didn't they last until then?
9. Why did the Empress give the old nun, whom the women later dubbed Hitachi no Suke, one of her own robes?
10. Why did Shonagon say that there was nothing worse than a poorly dressed ox carriage driver?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How was The Pillow Book discovered and made public? Did Shonagon mean to have others read her work? What evidence is there that she may have meant for the book to go public?
Essay Topic 2
What was the significance of rituals in Shonagon's life? How did they add structure to her life and what did she think of them?
Essay Topic 3
What role did romance play in Shonagon's life? What rules for romance did she have?
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