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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 disease killed Sensei’s father?
(a) Alzheimer’s
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Typhoid.

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

3. Sensei’s wife tells the narrator that Sensei is at a cemetery where in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Zoshigaya.
(b) Ichigaya.
(c) Tomiura.
(d) Kagoshima.

4. 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) Ichigaya.
(b) Niigata.
(c) Tottori.
(d) Nikko.

5. Sensei writes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “Since my past was experienced only by me, I might be excused if I regarded it as” what?
(a) “My religion.”
(b) “My property.”
(c) “My being.”
(d) “My foundation.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says of Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I, “Before he could destroy his wife’s happiness, he” did what?

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

3. What does Sensei say “is the loneliest time of all” in Part I: Sensei and I?

4. What game does the narrator play with his father while he is recovering to appease his boredom in Part I: Sensei and I?

5. What kind of nature does Sensei tell the narrator he has after they leave the tree nursery in Part I: Sensei and I?

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