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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sensei and I (pages 21-42).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the narrator’s vacationing student friend called home in the beginning of Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) His parents need help with home repairs.
(b) His mother is ill.
(c) His sister is having a baby.
(d) His brother is getting married.

2. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “[I]f you ever allow yourself to feel betrayed, you will then find yourself being” what?
(a) “Awfully morose.”
(b) “Cruelly vindictive.”
(c) “Obstinately vengeful.”
(d) “Excellently moved.”

3. Sensei’s wife tells the narrator that Sensei left how long ago to go to the cemetery in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 3 hours.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 10 minutes.
(d) 45 mintues.

4. Where do Sensei and his wife take a holiday and send a letter with a maple leaf enclosed to the narrator from in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Nikko.
(b) Ichigaya.
(c) Tottori.
(d) Niigata.

5. Sensei tells the narrator that his Western friend is something of what in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) A hermit.
(b) An eccentric.
(c) A preacher.
(d) A criminal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the narrator’s fellow vacationing student friend at the beach from in Part I: Sensei and I?

2. What did Natsume Soseki study in college?

3. General Nogi and who were the best-known heroes of the Russo-Japanese War?

4. After the narrator makes an amused comment about a loving couple in the garden during flower-viewing season in Part I: Sensei and I, what does Sensei ask him?

5. What does Sensei say “is the loneliest time of all” in Part I: Sensei and I?

(see the answer key)

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