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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. What type of tree in the cemetery does Sensei make a point of walking past every time he visits his friend’s grave, according to the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) A maple tree.
(b) A pine tree.
(c) A cedar tree.
(d) A gingko tree.

2. Where do Sensei and his wife take a holiday and send a letter with a maple leaf enclosed to the narrator from in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Tottori.
(b) Niigata.
(c) Nikko.
(d) Ichigaya.

3. When was Emperor Meiji born?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1937.

4. Where did Sensei attend college?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Kyushu.
(c) Zoshigaya.
(d) Suidobashi.

5. What is the name of the childhood friend of the narrator’s father that comes to see him on his death bed in the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan?
(a) Omitsu.
(b) K.
(c) Okusan.
(d) Saku-san.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator first sees Sensei at a teahouse by the beach, he says that two days previously he had gone where?

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

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

4. What is the name of the widow’s daughter in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

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

(see the answer key)

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