Memoirs of a Geisha Trivia Quiz

Answer: Yoroido

It is stated in the second paragraph that Chiyo is born in Yoroido. It is considered to be a dump. Chiyo is born here to a superstitious fisherman. She, at this point in this story, has only once seen anybody of any importance: the Emporer's nephew.

Answer: tipsy house

Chiyo thinks of most things in a different perspective than other people. She thinks that her house is tilted in such a way that it looks like it has had too much to drink.

Answer: Mr. Tanaka is adopting her and Satsu

Chiyo is constantly under the false impression that Mr. Tanaka is going to adopt her and Satsu. She continues to have this hope up until the point of time when she and Satsu are taken on the train. However, Satsu has never been under such an impression.

Answer: False

This is stated when Chiyo is first shown to Mother. Auntie was actually Mother's "big sister." However, Auntie once fell and broke her hip. Therefore, she was forced to retire as a geisha, and Mother was adopted by Granny in her place.

Answer: Hatsumomo

The room that Hatsumomo occupies had previously been used to house up to 4 geisha at a time, but Hatsumomo is the only money-making geisha in the okiya at this point in the book, so she gets the room to herself.

Answer: Nightingale

The nightingale droppings were thought to be good for the skin. In the time when Granny was a geisha, they used China Clay. That was also thought to be good for the skin, but when the geisha went to mineral springs, the China Clay made their skin turn yellow.

Answer: amakuchi

Amakuchi is very light and sweet, and it is brewed only in the winter. However, when Chiyo is ordered to go get Hatsumomo something to drink, there is none left from the previous winter. Therefore, she is forced to get Hatsumomo and Korin some beer instead.

Answer: vines with autumn leaves

Hatsumomo gets Mameha's kimono by blackmailing Mameha's maid. Hatsumomo caught Mameha's maid having an affair with a theater director. When Hatsumomo presents the kimono, she makes Chiyo "practice her calligraphy" on the kimono. Chiyo considers the marks made by her hand to really be "Hatsumomo... just trying in her own way to be artistic." Then, Chiyo is forced to return the ruined kimono, and she sees Mameha for the first time.

Answer: Koichi

Chiyo sees Hatsumomo and Koichi in the maid's room. She tells Mother about them when she is starting to get beaten. Then, all the maids and servants are denied six weeks of dried fish. If Chiyo was maybe unpopular before, she was definitely unpopular now.

Answer: True

Mr. Tanaka also informs Chiyo as to Satsu and Mr. Sugi's son running away together. Chiyo is devastated when she finds out that she has no family left, and she tries to convince Auntie to set up the shrine and mortuary tablets out of her view. Instead, Auntie sets them up in the midle of the hall.