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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. In what month is the narrator due to graduate from university in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) March.
(b) January.
(c) May.
(d) June.

2. Sensei says in Part III, Sensei’s Testament that in his time, there were already a few high-class boarding houses for college students located where?
(a) The Ueno area.
(b) The Yedo area.
(c) The Boshu area.
(d) The Hongo area.

3. What word from the narrative in Part I: Sensei and I, means requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking?
(a) Coquetry.
(b) Dogmatic.
(c) Disillusionment.
(d) Fastidious.

4. What Buddhist inscription does the narrator describe on one of the tombstones in the cemetery in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) “Derive your strength from Buddha.”
(b) “Buddha be with you.”
(c) “Buddha is the light.”
(d) “All living things bear within themselves the essence of Buddha.”

5. Where does the narrator’s elder brother work?
(a) Masagocho.
(b) Kyushu.
(c) Yedo.
(d) Hongo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who informs Sensei of the widow and her vacant room in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

2. When does the narrator tell Sensei and his wife he will be back in Tokyo after he graduates in Part I: Sensei and I?

3. What disease killed Sensei’s father?

4. How many tea houses does the narrator describe on the beach in the beginning of Part I: Sensei and I?

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

(see the answer key)

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