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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Sensei’s wife when he first sees her in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Caustic.
(c) Bitter.
(d) Elderly.

2. 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?
(a) Cedar trees.
(b) Pine trees.
(c) Palm trees.
(d) Maple trees.

3. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, that “when a man dies suddenly” what “causes more trouble than anything else”?
(a) “His estate.”
(b) “His children.”
(c) “His widow.”
(d) “His legacy.”

4. Sensei asks the narrator while walking through the cemetery in Part I: Sensei and I, “You have never thought seriously of the reality of” what?
(a) “Marriage.”
(b) “Death.”
(c) “Life.”
(d) “Having children.”

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

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. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “Give a gentleman money, and he will soon turn into a” what?

3. In what month is the narrator due to graduate from university in Part I: Sensei and I?

4. 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?

5. By the end of what month is the narrator’s graduation thesis due in Part I: Sensei and I?

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