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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. NatsumeSoseki wrote Kokoro how many years after the death of Emperor Meiji?
(a) 2.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

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

3. The narrator describes Sensei’s attitude as what, prior to their meeting in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Overly gregarious.
(b) Austere and arrogant.
(c) Somewhat unsociable.
(d) Sneakily condescending.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sensei’s wife tells the narrator that Sensei is at a cemetery where in Part I: Sensei and I?

2. 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?

3. Where is the narrator’s fellow vacationing student friend at the beach from in Part I: Sensei and I?

4. 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?

5. What type of tree in the cemetery does Sensei make a point of walking past every time he visits his friend’s grave, according to the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I?

(see the answer key)

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