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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states of Sensei’s wife in Part I: Sensei and I, “I was deeply impressed by her capacity for sympathy and” what?
(a) “Friendship.”
(b) “Understanding.”
(c) “Rationalization.”
(d) “Anger.”

2. 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) “Cruelly vindictive.”
(b) “Excellently moved.”
(c) “Awfully morose.”
(d) “Obstinately vengeful.”

3. The narrator goes to stay with Sensei’s wife due to a slew of burglaries while Sensei is gone where in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A dinner party.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A graduation.

4. Sensei’s wife tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “I see that higher education has made you adept at” what?
(a) “Thinking for yourself.”
(b) “Making friends.”
(c) “Taking direction.”
(d) “Empty rationalization.”

5. At what time does Sensei return home while the narrator stays with his wife to watch for burglars in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 6 p.m.
(b) 8 p.m.
(c) 10 a.m.
(d) 10:00 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states of his feelings on women in Part I: Sensei and I, “Often, when I found myself face to face with a woman, my longing would suddenly disappear. Instead of being drawn to the woman, I would feel a kind of” what?

2. The narrator says after his discussion with Sensei at the tree nursery in Part I: Sensei and I, “Among the things that Sensei said, what interested me most was his remark that no man was immune to” what?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation does the narrator have with Sensei regarding trust in Part I, Sensei and I?

2. What does the narrator tell Sensei of his father’s health when he returns to Tokyo in Part I, Sensei and I? How does Sensei respond?

3. What does Sensei ask Soseki on their walk in the tree nursery after Soseki has completed his thesis in Part I, Sensei and I?

4. What event does Sensei’s wife describe that hints at the reason Sensei changed and became removed from the world in Part I, Sensei and I?

5. What occurrence leads up to Soseki and Sensei’s discussion of guilt in love in Part I, Sensei and I?

6. How does Sensei respond when the narrator asks him to clarify his meaning of “guilt” in Part I, Sensei and I?

7. What does the novel’s translator write about the language in Kokoroin the Forward?

8. What does Sensei say of “unnatural death” in Part I, Sensei and I?

9. What does Sensei reveal about greed and betrayal in his past at the tree nursery in Part I, Sensei and I?

10. When and where was Kokoro first published? What insight does the translator give to the meaning of the title in the Forward?

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