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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sensei’s Testament (through page 164).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What game does the narrator play with his father while he is recovering to appease his boredom in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Dominos.
(b) Checkers.
(c) Chess.
(d) Backgammon.

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

4. What term refers to the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan?
(a) Kimono.
(b) Junshi.
(c) Shinshu.
(d) Samurai.

5. Where do Sensei and his wife take a holiday and send a letter with a maple leaf enclosed to the narrator from in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Tottori.
(b) Nikko.
(c) Ichigaya.
(d) Niigata.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tokyo once known as?

2. Sensei apologizes in Part III, Sensei’s Testament for being what kind of person?

3. 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?

4. What job offer does a friend from school send to the narrator in Part II, My Parents and I?

5. In what year did Natsume Soseki join the staff of the Fifth National College in Kumamoto?

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