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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sensei’s Testament (pages 164-207).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Natsume Soseki born, according to the book’s Forward?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1867.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1817.

2. What refers to a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Feudalism.

3. When the narrator first sees Sensei at a teahouse by the beach, he says that two days previously he had gone where?
(a) Ichigaya.
(b) Nikko.
(c) Kagoshima.
(d) Yuigahama.

4. Sensei describes walking up the slope of Koishikawa toward what temple in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) The Temple of Myojin.
(b) Konnyaku-Emma Temple.
(c) Denzuin Temple.
(d) Shinshu temple.

5. The head of the family that was renting a room in the house that Sensei would eventually take was killed in what war, according to Sensei in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) The Russo-Japanese War.
(b) The Sino-Japanese War.
(c) The Shimabara Rebellion.
(d) The Indian-Japanese War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Sensei and the narrator walk toward after leaving the gardens during the flower-viewing season in Part I: Sensei and I?

2. Sensei writes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “As I look about me, I find that I really have no” what?

3. When Sensei returns from summer vacation after his first year in college, he finds K living in a dirty temple by what?

4. What type of tree in the cemetery does Sensei make a point of walking past every time he visits his friend’s grave, according to the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I?

5. During what years did the Meiji era last, according to the author in the Forward?

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