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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what name does the narrator’s father refer to his wife in Part II, My Parents and I?
(a) Omitsu.
(b) Saku-san.
(c) K.
(d) Seki.

2. What refers to a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor?
(a) Feudalism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Capitalism.

3. Sensei writes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “Since my past was experienced only by me, I might be excused if I regarded it as” what?
(a) “My foundation.”
(b) “My being.”
(c) “My property.”
(d) “My religion.”

4. 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) “Enormous wealth.”
(b) “The true way.”
(c) “A better life.”
(d) “Important answers.”

5. How does K earn money to attend college after being disowned by his foster family?
(a) Singing.
(b) Working as a janitor.
(c) Acting.
(d) Teaching.

6. On their first summer break in college, K rents a room in a temple where in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) Masagocho.
(b) Komagome.
(c) Ichigaya.
(d) Suidobashi.

7. What religious book does Sensei find in K’s room at the temple after he returns from his first summer vacation at college?
(a) A Bible.
(b) A Vinaya.
(c) A Koran.
(d) A torah.

8. Sensei apologizes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament for being what kind of person?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Inconsistent.
(c) Disorderly.
(d) Contemptuous.

9. When was Emperor Meiji born?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1852.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1937.

10. In the middle of what month do K and Sensei return to college in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) September.
(b) May.
(c) December.
(d) July.

11. Sensei asks himself in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “Can one expect the complicated mechanism of the human mind to betray its purposes so obviously, as though it were some kind of” what?
(a) Snake.
(b) Mirror.
(c) Clock.
(d) Rickshaw.

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

13. How does Sensei presumably die at the end of the novel?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) He does of tuberculosis.
(c) He dies of cancer.
(d) He is murdered.

14. What refers to the medieval Japanese act of vassals committing ritual suicide upon the death of their lord?
(a) Shinshu.
(b) Kimono.
(c) Junshi.
(d) Samurai.

15. When does the narrator say he had come home in Part II, My Parents and I?
(a) July.
(b) March.
(c) September.
(d) December.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the widow’s daughter in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

2. What term refers to the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan?

3. When Sensei asks for Ojosan’s hand in marriage, he says the conversation does not last longer than what in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

4. 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?

5. How many days before the narrator leaves for Tokyo does his father have a fainting spell in Part II, My Parents and I?

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