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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 would make a player in a game of hidden rhymes look pleased with himself?
2. According to Shonagon, what is it absurd for people to get angry about?
3. Where did the Empress live after the Chancellor's death?
4. What did Tadanobu say one was always sorry for in "It Was Late at Night?"
5. What was the spirit of the Captain from the Inner Palace Guards said to be haunting?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was Nobukata upset by Shonagon's response to his inquiry about how she felt about the poem "had not yet reached the term of thirty?"
2. Why did the Empress keep the note Yukinari sent with the square cakes?
3. Why did the priest tell the women to keep talking all night after overhearing their conversation about where the wood for the Chamberlains' batons come from and talking about the names of clothing?
4. Why was Shonagon happy to receive a note from a man that read "the rain that swells the water?"
5. Why did the Empress laugh when Tozammi brought her the letters about the people at the capital no longer wearing their mourning clothes?
6. Why did Shonagon say a man who had been promoted from Subordinate Officer to Chamberlain seemed like he had been reborn?
7. Why did Shonagon prefer that the envoys in the Special Festival at Kamo keep their faces concealed with wisteria?
8. Why did Tadanobu tell Nobukata about the secret code he and Shonagon spoke in?
9. Why did the Empress say that she could understand why Shonagon would be particularly impressed by Tadanobu's finding the perfect lines to say at a gathering following a service for the late Chancellor?
10. Why did the Empress think Shonagon was lying when she insisted she was fond of the Empress during her early days as a courtier?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How was Shonagon's life affected by the politics of the time? What impact did they have on her living situation? How did they affect what people thought of her?
Essay Topic 2
How did Shonagon treat men differently from women? What did she say about each? Whom does she compliment? What might account for the differences in the way she treated men and women?
Essay Topic 3
What was Shonagon's relationship with the Empress like? Was Shonagon merely a servant or were they friends? How do we know this?
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