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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, My Parents and I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator travel to the cemetery to meet with Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) By rickshaw.
(b) By carraige.
(c) By train.
(d) By foot.

2. What does Sensei call the azalea tree that is taller than the others and reddish-brown in color at the tree nursery in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Kimono.
(b) Junshi.
(c) Kirishima.
(d) Shinshu.

3. The narrator says in Part I: Sensei and I, that his inn was in a rather out-of-the-way district of the beach town and if one wanted to play billiards or eat ice cream, a rickshaw would cost how much?
(a) 35 sen.
(b) 40 sen.
(c) 20 sen.
(d) 35 sen.

4. The narrator says that he learned to be an accomplished whistle-blower from a friend where in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Yedo.
(b) Nikko.
(c) Zoshigaya.
(d) Kagoshima.

5. In what year did NatsumeSoseki succeed Lafcadio Hearn as lecturer in English literature at the Imperial University?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1913.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was General Nogi born?

3. 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?

4. What refers to the medieval Japanese act of vassals committing ritual suicide upon the death of their lord?

5. What did Natsume Soseki study in college?

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