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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. The narrator’s vacationing student friend is called home after they have been at the beach town for how long in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 1 day.
(c) 6 days.
(d) 10 days.

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

3. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your” what?
(a) “Scorn along with it.”
(b) “Humble opinion.”
(c) “Insults in the future.”
(d) “Biased point of view.”

4. 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?
(a) “Strong wind.”
(b) “Fanciful.”
(c) “The heart of things.”
(d) “Fast-paced.”

5. Where is the narrator’s fellow vacationing student friend at the beach from in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) The Central Provinces.
(b) The Western Provinces.
(c) The Northern Provinces.
(d) The Eastern Provinces.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Natsume Soseki born, according to the book’s Forward?

2. 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?

3. What was Tokyo once known as?

4. How often does Sensei go to the cemetery to visit his friend’s grave?

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

(see the answer key)

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