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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sensei’s Testament (pages 207-248).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator tell Sensei he will be returning to Tokyo while he is home for his father’s illness in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) November.
(b) May.
(c) January.
(d) August.

2. Sensei describes the road between the stone bridge and where as being particularly bad in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) Zoshigaya.
(b) Yanagicho.
(c) Niigata.
(d) Suidobashi.

3. Sensei says in Part III, Sensei’s Testament that in his time, there were already a few high-class boarding houses for college students located where?
(a) The Yedo area.
(b) The Boshu area.
(c) The Hongo area.
(d) The Ueno area.

4. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your” what?
(a) “Humble opinion.”
(b) “Biased point of view.”
(c) “Scorn along with it.”
(d) “Insults in the future.”

5. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “[I]f you ever allow yourself to feel betrayed, you will then find yourself being” what?
(a) “Excellently moved.”
(b) “Obstinately vengeful.”
(c) “Awfully morose.”
(d) “Cruelly vindictive.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Sensei apologizes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament for being what kind of person?

2. Sensei says in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “In those days, such phrases as ‘the age of awakening’ or” what had not yet come into fashion?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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