View a FREE sample

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. After the narrator makes an amused comment about a loving couple in the garden during flower-viewing season in Part I: Sensei and I, what does Sensei ask him?
(a) “Do you enjoy flowers?”
(b) “Are you lonely?”
(c) “Have you ever been in love?”
(d) “Do you have a girlfriend?”

2. K tells Sensei in Part III, Sensei’s Testament that he doesn’t mind deceiving his foster parents so long as it will lead him to what?
(a) “Important answers.”
(b) “A better life.”
(c) “The true way.”
(d) “Enormous wealth.”

3. What is K wearing around his wrist when Sensei finds him living in the temple after their first summer vacation from college?
(a) A cast.
(b) A watch.
(c) A piece of rope.
(d) A rosary.

4. 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 brother.
(b) A priest.
(c) A mentor.
(d) A doctor.

5. When talking with K after leaving the library in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, Sensei compares himself to what crouching before a lamb?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A crocodile.
(c) A leopard.
(d) A tiger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sensei describes walking up the slope of Koishikawa toward what temple in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

2. The author states in the Forward, “The best rendering of the Japanese word "kokoro" that I have seen is Lafcadio Hearn's, which is” what?

3. Okusan and Ojosan leave the house to visit relatives where in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

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

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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 319 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample