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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. Where is Sensei’s wife’s father from?
(a) Niigata.
(b) Ichigaya.
(c) Nikko.
(d) Tottori.

2. Where is the narrator during the summer holidays when he first meets Sensei?
(a) Uguisudani.
(b) Kamakura.
(c) Yanagicho.
(d) Nikko.

3. General Nogi and who were the best-known heroes of the Russo-Japanese War?
(a) General Shimokobe
(b) General Jinsoku.
(c) Admiral Omitsu.
(d) Admiral Togo.

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?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 10 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

5. Where was Natsume Soseki born, according to the book’s Forward?
(a) Kamakura, Japan.
(b) Fukushima, Japan.
(c) Tokyo, Japan.
(d) Osaka, Japan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “The friendship that you sought in me is in reality a preparation for” what?

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

4. When was Natsume Soseki sent to England as a government scholar?

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

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