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

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) “Death.”
(d) “Having children.”

3. What does “Sensei” mean in general Japanese usage?
(a) Friend.
(b) Priest.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Laborer.

4. When was Natsume Soseki born, according to the book’s Forward?
(a) 1817.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1893.

5. What did Natsume Soseki study in college?
(a) Calculus.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) English literature.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sensei repeatedly tells the narrator that there is what in loving in Part I: Sensei and I?

2. How does the narrator travel to the cemetery to meet with Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I?

3. What was Tokyo once known as?

4. The narrator says in Part I: Sensei and I, that he might have never noticed Sensei had he not been accompanied by what?

5. Sensei tells the narrator that his Western friend is something of what in Part I: Sensei and I?

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