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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sensei’s Testament (pages 207-248).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the narrator during the summer holidays when he first meets Sensei?
(a) Uguisudani.
(b) Nikko.
(c) Kamakura.
(d) Yanagicho.

2. The narrator states in Part II, My Parents and I, “My mother seemed to attach about as much importance to my graduation as she would have done to my” what?
(a) “First child.”
(b) “Birth.”
(c) “Death.”
(d) “Marriage.”

3. What is Sensei speaking of when he says they “are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things” in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) “Laws.”
(b) “Horses.”
(c) “Customs.”
(d) “Words.”

4. When Sensei returns from summer vacation after his first year in college, he finds K living in a dirty temple by what?
(a) The Great Kannon.
(b) The central Tokyo cemetery.
(c) The Emperor’s castle.
(d) The military fort.

5. What garment of the narrator’s does Sensei’s wife say is hand-woven and that she’s never worked on such beautiful material before in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) An Obi.
(b) A kimono.
(c) A Kinchaku-bag.
(d) A Nagajuban.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator returns to Tokyo after meeting Sensei at the beach in Part I: Sensei and I, he has how long before the beginning of lectures at the college?

2. What does the narrator buy to put on the flag pole after Emperor Meiji’s death in Part II, My Parents and I?

3. The narrator’s father says in Part II, My Parents and I that the younger generation only knows how to do what?

4. The author states in the Forward, “The best rendering of the Japanese word "kokoro" that I have seen is Lafcadio Hearn's, which is” what?

5. What word from the narrative in Part I: Sensei and I, means requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking?

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