"Green Willow"

The story "Green Willow" is retold by . . .

• Rafe Martin

• Kiyohara Yukinobu

• Seami Motokiyo

• Yosa Buson

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What insights into Japanese culture do you gain from this story?

• Practice of arranged marriages.

• Belief that love is the most important thing in life.

• Samurai's sense of duty; Buddhism's respect for all forms of life.

• Idea that things in nature have a soul.

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously
• A hint at something that will happen later
• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

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Describe Green Willow and Tomotada's married life.

• They argue a lot because he feels like he went against his duty to his lord.

• They have a happy married life and create a beautiful garden together.

• They don't have a strong marriage because she seems distant to him.

• They have their ups and downs like a lot of marriages.

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How do Green Willow and Tomotada first meet?

• They meet on a mountain pass when he is on his mission.

• They meet at his lord's castle before he leaves.

• They meet after a storm when he is at the temple.

• They meet when he stops at her hut to seek refuge from a storm.

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What message about people and nature does "Green Willow" express?

• That people and nature are connected.

• That some things in nature are actually human.

• That people should avoid getting too close to nature.

• That people shouldn't always trust nature.

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What does Tomotada first do after Green Willow disappears?

• He finally finishes his mission for his lord.

• He goes back home ot his family.

• He gives everything away and becomes a wandering monk.

• He destroys the garden that he and Green Willow created.

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What is Tomotada's mission?

• To deliver a box to a relative of his lord.

• To go collect money due to his lord.

• To deliver an important scroll to another lord.

• To go pick up an item that his lord purchased at a nearby city.

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What do the entwined branches and roots of the two willows represent at the end of the story?

• The embrace of Green Willow and Tomotada.

• That something good can come out of a bad experience.

• That if you plant trees too closely the roots and branches will connect.

• That an oddity of nature has occured.

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How did the family react Tomotada when he stopped at their hut to seek refuge from the storm?

• They acted a bit annoyed that a stranger would expect them to invite him in.

• They told him that they didn't have room for him.

• They let him come in for a bit and gave him some food to take with him.

• They welcomed him and invited him for dinner and told him he could stay.

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