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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sensei’s Testament (pages 164-207).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Okusan takes Sensei out to dinner at a restaurant on what street in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) Tottori.
(b) Kiharadana.
(c) Ichigaya.
(d) Kamakura.

2. What refers to the medieval Japanese act of vassals committing ritual suicide upon the death of their lord?
(a) Samurai.
(b) Junshi.
(c) Shinshu.
(d) Kimono.

3. The narrator states of Sensei’s wife in Part I: Sensei and I, “I was deeply impressed by her capacity for sympathy and” what?
(a) “Rationalization.”
(b) “Friendship.”
(c) “Anger.”
(d) “Understanding.”

4. What is the name of the narrator’s brother-in-law?
(a) Seki.
(b) K.
(c) Omitsu.
(d) Saku-san.

5. K’s foster parents sent him to Tokyo to study what, according to Sensei in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) The English language.
(d) Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What church does Sensei say was very powerful in his native district in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

2. When does the narrator say he had come home in Part II, My Parents and I?

3. Sensei writes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “As I look about me, I find that I really have no” what?

4. Where do Sensei and the narrator walk toward after leaving the gardens during the flower-viewing season in Part I: Sensei and I?

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

(see the answer key)

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