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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sensei’s Testament (pages 164-207).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom has Okusan gone out when Sensei returns home to find Ojosan and K sitting alone in his room together the first time in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) Seki.
(b) Shizu.
(c) Ojosan.
(d) The maid.

2. Sensei says in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “The development—or the destruction—of man’s body and mind depends upon” what?
(a) “External stimuli.”
(b) “Natural forces.”
(c) “Spiritual forces.”
(d) “Internal stimuli.”

3. What does Sensei’s wife send home with the narrator after he stays with her to watch for burglars in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Tea cakes.
(b) Goji cakes.
(c) Fish cakes.
(d) Coffee cakes.

4. K was adopted into the home of what?
(a) A priest.
(b) A samurai.
(c) A general.
(d) A doctor.

5. The narrator states in Part I: Sensei and I, that although he profited greatly from his conversations with Sensei, he found him very unsatisfactory as what?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A priest.
(c) A brother.
(d) A mentor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Sensei’s wife’s mother from?

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

3. How does K earn money to attend college after being disowned by his foster family?

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?

5. When was General Nogi born?

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