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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. Why is the narrator’s vacationing student friend called home in the beginning of Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) His brother is getting married.
(b) His sister is having a baby.
(c) His parents need help with home repairs.
(d) His mother is ill.

2. When the narrator first sees Sensei at a teahouse by the beach, he says that two days previously he had gone where?
(a) Nikko.
(b) Kagoshima.
(c) Yuigahama.
(d) Ichigaya.

3. How often does Sensei go to the cemetery to visit his friend’s grave?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Once a year.

4. 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?
(a) A maple tree.
(b) A pine tree.
(c) A cedar tree.
(d) A gingko tree.

5. In what year did Natsume Soseki join the staff of the Fifth National College in Kumamoto?
(a) 1896.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1924.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When the narrator enters the cemetery to find Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I, he describes a broad avenue bordered on each side by what?

3. Who translated Kokoroand wrote the book’s Forward?

4. 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?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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