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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sensei and I (pages 21-42).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Tokyo once known as?
(a) Yedo.
(b) Boshu.
(c) Nikko.
(d) Ueno.

2. 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) “Life.”
(c) “Having children.”
(d) “Death.”

3. Where is Sensei’s wife’s mother from?
(a) Ichigaya.
(b) Niigata.
(c) Tottori.
(d) Nikko.

4. Sensei’s wife tells the narrator that Sensei left how long ago to go to the cemetery in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 10 minutes.
(b) 1 hour.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 45 mintues.

5. The narrator says in Part I: Sensei and I, that he might have never noticed Sensei had he not been accompanied by what?
(a) A Southerner.
(b) A Westerner.
(c) An Easterner.
(d) A Northerner.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The narrator says in Part I: Sensei and I, “At first, I thought of Sensei’s wife as a woman of” what?

3. In what year did NatsumeSoseki succeed Lafcadio Hearn as lecturer in English literature at the Imperial University?

4. In what year did Natsume Soseki join the staff of the Fifth National College in Kumamoto?

5. The narrator states of his feelings on women in Part I: Sensei and I, “Often, when I found myself face to face with a woman, my longing would suddenly disappear. Instead of being drawn to the woman, I would feel a kind of” what?

(see the answer key)

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