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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sensei and I (pages 42-80).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How much money does Sensei give to the son of the tree orchard in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 5 sen.
(b) 10 sen.
(c) 50 sen.
(d) 20 sen.

4. When the narrator first goes to see Sensei in Tokyo, it is how long since lectures have started at the university in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 1 week.

5. When did Confucius live?
(a) 1012-945 BCE.
(b) 324-277 BCE.
(c) 108-55 BCE.
(d) 551-479 BCE.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says after his discussion with Sensei at the tree nursery in Part I: Sensei and I, “Among the things that Sensei said, what interested me most was his remark that no man was immune to” what?

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

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

5. What kind of illness has the narrator’s father suffered from for some time in Part I: Sensei and I?

(see the answer key)

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