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

2. What “old-fashioned phrase” does Sensei use to describe K’s situation at home in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) “Walking on eggshells.”
(b) “Restricted to silence.”
(c) “Entered into the flame.”
(d) “Expelled from his father’s house.”

3. What is the name of the widow and Sensei’s landlord in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) Shizu.
(b) Okusan.
(c) Ojosan.
(d) Seki.

4. 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 religion.”
(b) “My foundation.”
(c) “My property.”
(d) “My being.”

5. K was the son of a priest in what sect?
(a) Kabbala.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Santerian.
(d) Shinshu.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sensei and K decide to go to the coast of where in Part III, Sensei’s Testament during summer vacation?

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

3. Sensei’s family home was how far from the nearest city when he was growing up, according to his letter in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

4. How many siblings does Ojosan have in the novel?

5. How did K die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is K’s justification for defying his adoptive parents’ wishes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

2. What conclusion does Sensei reach at the end of his letter in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

3. What topic causes strife between Sensei and his adoptive family in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

4. What warning does Okusan give Sensei when he first broaches the topic of K coming to live at the house in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

5. What is Sensei’s objective in having K live with him? How do Okusan and Ojosan respond to Sensei’s suggestions?

6. When does Sensei tell Soseki he began to respect him in his letter in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

7. How does Sensei know K? How does K defy his parents’ wishes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

8. Where does K go during his first summer holiday from school in Part III, Sensei’s Testament? How does Sensei describe him when the holiday ends?

9. What does Sensei learn about K’s discovery of the engagement in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

10. What does Soseki’s father say after Soseki’s arrival to cause Soseki to feel remorse in Part II, My Parents and I?

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