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Kokoro Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

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. Where was Natsume Soseki born, according to the book’s Forward?
(a) Kamakura, Japan.
(b) Tokyo, Japan.
(c) Osaka, Japan.
(d) Fukushima, Japan.

3. Sensei repeatedly tells the narrator that there is what in loving in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Dignity.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Anger.
(d) Pride.

4. At what time does Sensei return home while the narrator stays with his wife to watch for burglars in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 10:00 p.m.
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) 8 p.m.
(d) 6 p.m.

5. When was Natsume Soseki sent to England as a government scholar?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of nature does Sensei tell the narrator he has after they leave the tree nursery in Part I: Sensei and I?

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

3. When the narrator enters the cemetery to find Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I, he describes a broad avenue bordered on each side by what?

4. How does the narrator travel to the cemetery to meet with Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I?

5. What is the name of Sensei’s wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrative point-of-view in Kokoro? How is this perspective fitting for the novel?

2. How is Sensei’s drinking described in Part I, Sensei and I? Why is this significant?

3. Soseki has said that he is often disappointed by Sensei’s responses. How is this illustrated after Soseki visits Sensei after completing his term paper in Part I, Sensei and I?

4. What does the narrator tell Sensei of his father’s health when he returns to Tokyo in Part I, Sensei and I? How does Sensei respond?

5. How does Sensei respond when the narrator asks him to clarify his meaning of “guilt” in Part I, Sensei and I?

6. What financial advice does Sensei give Soseki in the tree nursery in Part I, Sensei and I?

7. What does Sensei ask Soseki on their walk in the tree nursery after Soseki has completed his thesis in Part I, Sensei and I?

8. What event does Sensei’s wife describe that hints at the reason Sensei changed and became removed from the world in Part I, Sensei and I?

9. Why does Soseki want to know about Sensei’s past? What conversation takes place regarding trust at the tree nursery in Part I, Sensei and I?

10. What is foreshadowed through Soseki and Sensei’s discussion of trust in the first section of Part I, Sensei and I?

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