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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How often does Sensei go to the cemetery to visit his friend’s grave?
(a) Once a year.
(b) Once a day.
(c) Once a week.
(d) Once a month.

2. 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?
(a) Pine trees.
(b) Cedar trees.
(c) Palm trees.
(d) Maple trees.

3. Where was Natsume Soseki educated, according to the book’s Forward?
(a) Imperial University.
(b) Waseda University.
(c) Hokkaido University.
(d) Kumamoto University.

4. Sensei asks the narrator while walking through the cemetery in Part I: Sensei and I, “You have never thought seriously of the reality of” what?
(a) “Life.”
(b) “Marriage.”
(c) “Death.”
(d) “Having children.”

5. How much money does Sensei give to the son of the tree orchard in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 20 sen.
(b) 5 sen.
(c) 10 sen.
(d) 50 sen.

6. What kind of illness has the narrator’s father suffered from for some time in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Heart disease.
(b) Kidney disease.
(c) Brain cancer.
(d) Arthritis.

7. What word from Part I: Sensei and I, mean the absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement?
(a) Dogmatic.
(b) Loquacity.
(c) Coquetry.
(d) Apathy.

8. The narrator says in Part I: Sensei and I, that he might have never noticed Sensei had he not been accompanied by what?
(a) An Easterner.
(b) A Northerner.
(c) A Westerner.
(d) A Southerner.

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

10. The narrator’s mother suggests that the narrator take Sensei what when he returns to Tokyo in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Loaves of bread.
(b) Lychee fruit.
(c) Dried mushrooms.
(d) Goji berries.

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

12. Who translated Kokoroand wrote the book’s Forward?
(a) Albert Johnson.
(b) Edwin McClellan.
(c) Jacob Winslow.
(d) Reginald Lee.

13. The narrator says of Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I, “Before he could destroy his wife’s happiness, he” did what?
(a) “Married another.”
(b) “Entered the priesthood.”
(c) “Moved away.”
(d) “Destroyed himself.”

14. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “Give a gentleman money, and he will soon turn into a” what?
(a) “Rogue.”
(b) “Demon.”
(c) “Child.”
(d) “Criminal.”

15. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, that “when a man dies suddenly” what “causes more trouble than anything else”?
(a) “His children.”
(b) “His widow.”
(c) “His legacy.”
(d) “His estate.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How many tea houses does the narrator describe on the beach in the beginning of Part I: Sensei and I?

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

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

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 relative of Sensei’s died of a similar ailment as the narrator’s father?

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