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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Sensei and I (pages 21-42).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator states in Part I, “Sensei and I,”He refers to Sensei by that name not because he is trying to be discreet, but because it is more what to him?
(a) Natural.
(b) Obscure.
(c) Indolent.
(d) Sincere.

3. The narrator’s vacationing student friend is called home after they have been at the beach town for how long in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) 10 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 6 days.
(d) 1 day.

4. When the narrator first sees Sensei at a teahouse by the beach, he says that two days previously he had gone where?
(a) Yuigahama.
(b) Kagoshima.
(c) Ichigaya.
(d) Nikko.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Sensei’s wife?

2. Where was Natsume Soseki educated, according to the book’s Forward?

3. The narrator says in Part I: Sensei and I, that his inn was in a rather out-of-the-way district of the beach town and if one wanted to play billiards or eat ice cream, a rickshaw would cost how much?

4. 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?

5. When the narrator returns to Tokyo after meeting Sensei at the beach in Part I: Sensei and I, he has how long before the beginning of lectures at the college?

(see the answer key)

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