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+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Optional
+
+@dataclass
+class KanjiKanaBlank:
+    "A type of question involving kana or kanji that need to be re-written into the other form."
+    kanji: str
+    kana: str
+    prompt: str  # The prompt will be in the form of a Python format string, e.g. "それは{}であった", with the word to be shown in the blank
+
+class QuestionOnePart(KanjiKanaBlank):
+    pass
+
+class QuestionTwoPart(KanjiKanaBlank):
+    pass
+
+...
+
+class QuestionOne:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionTwo:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionThree:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionFour:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionFourPartOne:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionFourPartTwo:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionFive:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionSix:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionSeven:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionEight:
+    pass
+
+class QuestionNine:
+    pass
+
+def get_aozora_sentence(word: str, max_length: int = 16) -> Optional[str]:
+    "Receiving a `word`, retrieves a sentence from the Aozora Bunko corpus of a suitable `max_length`."
+
+def get_random_kun_word() -> str:
+    pass
+
+def get_random_on_word() -> str:
+    pass
+
+def get_random_kokuji_word() -> str:
+    pass
+
+# Section 1 (reading): generate using Aozora Bunko
+def generate_section_1() -> QuestionOne:
+    """Generate 30 sentences, sampled from Aozora Bunko, no longer than 16 characters each,
+    with the first 20 expecting you to write the reading of an on'yomi derived word,
+    and the last 10 of a kun'yomi one.
+    """
+
+# Section 2 (writing): likewise, generate uing aozora bunko
+def generate_section_2(fourteen_general_readings: list[KanjiKanaBlank], on_homophone_pair: tuple[KanjiKanaBlank, KanjiKanaBlank], kun_homophone_pair: tuple[KanjiKanaBlank, KanjiKanaBlank], kokuji_pair: tuple[KanjiKanaBlank, KanjiKanaBlank]) -> QuestionTwo:
+    """Generate 14 sentences with readings of any kind, on or kun, as `KanjiKanaBlank`s.
+    Then, generate two pairs sentences. One of the pairs should be a kun reading of two different words,
+    and the other pair should be an on reading of two different words.
+    Finally, the last two should be based on any two kokuji's readings.
+    """
+
+# Section 3 (word selection): using definitions and picking out readings into the reading box
+def generate_section_3() -> QuestionThree:
+    """Generate 5 words of any kind, placing their corresponding readings in the "reading box".
+    Then, add a handful (e.g. 3) of misleading readings, which do not correspond to the readings of the words selected.
+    The question's objective is to have the taker match the selected words to their given readings,
+    ignoring the fake readings.
+    """
+
+# Section 4 (yojijukugo): for part 1, generate yojijukugo with their first two or bottom two kanji missing.
+# For part 2, generate 5 definitions and 8 yojijukugo in the box, whose parts should be highlighted accordingly
+def generate_section_4() -> QuestionFour:
+    """Yojijuko question.
+    Part I
+    For the first 10 questions, yojijukugo are given. For the first 5, the top 2 characters of the compound are missing,
+    so they must be written out. The the last 5, the bottom 2 are missing. The taker is aided by the readings of the missing
+    10 blanks, which are all placed in a reading box. There are no misleading readings like Q3.
+    Part II
+    5 yojijukugo definitions are given, along with 8 yojijukugo in a box, each with eithe the top 2 or bottom 2 characters underlined.
+    There are two objectives: matching the definitions to the yojijukugo, as well as providing the reading for each underlined portion along with it.
+    """
+
+# Section 5 (jukujikun): pick 10 words with a jukujikun reading
+def generate_section_5() -> QuestionFive:
+    """10 words that use jukujikun or ateji are listed. They simply need their readings to be written down.
+    This function merely needs to get 10 arbitrary jukujikun/ateji words."""
+
+# Section 6 (kun and on): pick 10 kanji, each with one word in which it is read as kun and one where it is read as on
+def generate_section_6() -> QuestionSix:
+    """
+    Pick five different characters that have both a kun reading with okurigana, and an on compound.
+    Each question consists of a pair of these two readings of the character.
+    """
+
+# Section 7 (synonyms and antonyms): pick two sets of 5 kanji compounds. For words 1-5, generate their antonyms in the box,
+# displayed as hiragana. For words 6-10, generate their synonyms in the same way.
+def generate_section_7() -> QuestionSeven:
+    """Generate 5 pairs of antonyms and 5 pairs of synonyms.
+    For each pair, one of the items should be put in the "question" section, lemmatised,
+    whereas the other item should be put in the "reading" box as hiragana.
+    The objective for the first 5 questions is to match the given question term to its antonym
+    in the reading box, writing out that antonym using kanji;
+    and the objective for the second 5 is to do the same, but giving the synonyms of the given terms.
+    """
+
+# Section 8 (proverbs, idioms and set expressions): generate 10 sample proverbs with the kanji to be written
+def generate_section_8() -> QuestionEight:
+    """Simply generate 10 idioms (koji, kotowaza, seiku) with one term given as a blank (`KanjiKanaBlank`)."""
+
+# Section 9 (text comprehension): generate a text or two, with 10 words with straight line markings shown,
+# whose katakana should be re-written as kanji;
+# and 10 words with wavy markings, in kanji, to be written as hiragana.
+def generate_section_9() -> QuestionNine:
+    """Derive an entire long-form passage from Aozora Bunko with a high diversity of kanji usage.
+    May generate more than one text, in which case each is letted (A, B, C, ...), but usually not that
+    many texts.
+    Some kanji words should be spelled out in hiragana, and some kana words should be spelled out in kanji.
+    """