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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Sensei’s Testament (pages 164-207).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What garment of the narrator’s does Sensei’s wife say is hand-woven and that she’s never worked on such beautiful material before in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) A Kinchaku-bag.
(b) A kimono.
(c) A Nagajuban.
(d) An Obi.

2. What does Sensei call the azalea tree that is taller than the others and reddish-brown in color at the tree nursery in Part I: Sensei and I?
(a) Junshi.
(b) Kimono.
(c) Shinshu.
(d) Kirishima.

3. Sensei tells the narrator in Part I: Sensei and I, “The friendship that you sought in me is in reality a preparation for” what?
(a) “The love that you lost from your family.”
(b) “The love that you will seek in a woman.”
(c) “Having children of your own.”
(d) “Facing your true self.”

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

5. 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) Nikko.
(d) Ichigaya.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator tells Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I, “I value your opinions because they are the results of your” what?

3. How does the narrator travel to the cemetery to meet with Sensei in Part I: Sensei and I?

4. The narrator’s father says in Part II, My Parents and I that the younger generation only knows how to do what?

5. When Sensei returns from summer vacation after his first year in college, he finds K living in a dirty temple by what?

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