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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. How does the narrator describe Sensei’s wife when he first sees her in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Bitter.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Elderly.
(d) Caustic.

2. After discovering K’s body, whom does Sensei decide to wake?
(a) Saku-san.
(b) Shizu.
(c) Seki.
(d) The main.

3. Where do Sensei, the widow, and her daughter go shopping for clothes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) Yedo.
(b) Zoshigaya.
(c) Nihonbashi.
(d) Yanagicho.

4. Where do the narrator and Sensei go during the flower-viewing season in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Kamakura.
(b) Nikko.
(c) Komagome.
(d) Ueno.

5. What word from Part III, Sensei’s Testament means flirtation?
(a) Loquacity.
(b) Dogmatic.
(c) Fastidious.
(d) Coquetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Natsume Soseki sent to England as a government scholar?

2. Sensei explains in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, that rickshaw wheels then did not have what, as they do now?

3. Sensei’s wife tells the narrator that Sensei left how long ago to go to the cemetery in Part I: Sensei and I?

4. The head of the family that was renting a room in the house that Sensei would eventually take was killed in what war, according to Sensei in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

5. What does Sensei call the azalea tree that is taller than the others and reddish-brown in color at the tree nursery in Part I: Sensei and I?

(see the answer key)

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