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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sensei’s Testament (through page 164).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did NatsumeSoseki succeed Lafcadio Hearn as lecturer in English literature at the Imperial University?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1933.

2. NatsumeSoseki wrote Kokoro how many years after the death of Emperor Meiji?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 7.

3. After the narrator makes an amused comment about a loving couple in the garden during flower-viewing season in Part I: Sensei and I, what does Sensei ask him?
(a) “Are you lonely?”
(b) “Do you enjoy flowers?”
(c) “Have you ever been in love?”
(d) “Do you have a girlfriend?”

4. 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?
(a) Cedar trees.
(b) Pine trees.
(c) Palm trees.
(d) Maple trees.

5. How many days before the narrator leaves for Tokyo does his father have a fainting spell in Part II, My Parents and I?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sensei attend college?

2. Sensei describes walking up the slope of Koishikawa toward what temple in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

3. 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?

4. Sensei writes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “As I look about me, I find that I really have no” what?

5. What is Sensei speaking of when he says they “are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things” in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

(see the answer key)

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