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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. When Sensei asks for Ojosan’s hand in marriage, he says the conversation does not last longer than what in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?
(a) 6 minutes.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 2 mintues.
(d) 15 minutes.

2. K was adopted into the home of what?
(a) A general.
(b) A priest.
(c) A samurai.
(d) A doctor.

3. What disease killed Sensei’s father?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Lung cancer.
(c) Alzheimer’s
(d) Typhoid.

4. When Sensei returns from summer vacation after his first year in college, he finds K living in a dirty temple by what?
(a) The Great Kannon.
(b) The central Tokyo cemetery.
(c) The Emperor’s castle.
(d) The military fort.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sensei visit before leaving his home for Tokyo after the quarrel with his uncle in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

2. What word from Part III, Sensei’s Testament means flirtation?

3. Okusan and Ojosan leave the house to visit relatives where in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

4. Sensei asks himself in Part III, Sensei’s Testament, “Can one expect the complicated mechanism of the human mind to betray its purposes so obviously, as though it were some kind of” what?

5. What is K wearing around his wrist when Sensei finds him living in the temple after their first summer vacation from college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What explanation does Sensei give for his lack of earlier response to Soseki’s letter in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

2. 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?

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

4. How does Soseki’s family react when news is heard of Emperor Meiji in Part II, My Parents and I?

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

6. Why does Soseki’s mother urge Soseki to write to Sensei in Part II, My Parents and I?

7. What does Sensei learn of his adoptive father from a friend in Part III, Sensei’s Testament?

8. Where does Sensei go after proposing to marry Ojosan in Part III, Sensei’s Testament? What does he think about?

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

10. How does Soseki’s father’s health correspond to the newspapers in Part II, My Parents and I?

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