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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does K earn money to attend college after being disowned by his foster family?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Acting.
(c) Singing.
(d) Working as a janitor.

2. 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 Sino-Japanese War.
(b) The Russo-Japanese War.
(c) The Indian-Japanese War.
(d) The Shimabara Rebellion.

3. What term refers to the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan?
(a) Kimono.
(b) Shinshu.
(c) Samurai.
(d) Junshi.

4. Sensei says in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “Women in those days did not wear their hair over their foreheads, but twisted it up like” what on top of their heads?
(a) “Jungle vines.”
(b) “Snake coils.”
(c) “Pig tails.”
(d) “Tornadoes.”

5. What is the name of the childhood friend of the narrator’s father that comes to see him on his death bed in the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan?
(a) Omitsu.
(b) K.
(c) Saku-san.
(d) Okusan.

6. Sensei’s family home was how far from the nearest city when he was growing up, according to his letter in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) 6 miles.
(b) 4 miles.
(c) 14 miles.
(d) 2 miles.

7. When did Emperor Meiji die historically?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1865.

8. What religious book does Sensei find in K’s room at the temple after he returns from his first summer vacation at college?
(a) A Koran.
(b) A torah.
(c) A Bible.
(d) A Vinaya.

9. How many days before the narrator leaves for Tokyo does his father have a fainting spell in Part II, My Parents and I?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

10. Sensei writes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “As I look about me, I find that I really have no” what?
(a) “Friends.”
(b) “Secrets.”
(c) “Questions.”
(d) “Obligations.”

11. The narrator tells his mother that he will have to go to Tokyo when in Part II, My Parents and I?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) February.
(d) April.

12. By what name does the narrator’s father refer to his wife in Part II, My Parents and I?
(a) K.
(b) Saku-san.
(c) Omitsu.
(d) Seki.

13. The narrator’s father says in Part II, My Parents and I, “We are not in Tokyo, you know. Country people are rather” what?
(a) “Humble and honest.”
(b) “Simple and angry.”
(c) “Fussy and resentful.”
(d) “Spiritual and loving.”

14. In the middle of what month do K and Sensei return to college in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) May.
(b) December.
(c) September.
(d) July.

15. The narrator’s father says in Part II, My Parents and I that the younger generation only knows how to do what?
(a) Worship the emperor.
(b) Spend money.
(c) Enjoy life.
(d) Complain about everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. K was adopted into the home of what?

2. After discovering K’s body, whom does Sensei decide to wake?

3. Sensei asks himself in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “Can one expect the complicated mechanism of the human mind to betray its purposes so obviously, as though it were some kind of” what?

4. How many days a week does K arrive home before Sensei in their last year at the university in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

5. Okusan and Ojosan leave the house to visit relatives where in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

(see the answer keys)

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