Reading Comprehension Quiz (Kyoko Mori, “School”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Kyoko Mori, “School”

Read “School” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question What country’s education system is Mori comparing to the United States’ system?

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Question Mori says that this is more interesting than the “real world”:

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Question A ronin, according to Mori, was a warrior without a master in feudal Japan. Who are the ronin in modern Japan?

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Question Why doesn’t Mori write in Japanese?

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Question How did Mori learn how to write in English?

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Question In the Zen style of teaching, what is “beyond human description”?

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Question What is the paradox that Mori observes in both the Zen style of teaching and the American style?

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Question What did Mori’s stepmother say that Mori thinks is “in its meanest form the universal frustration of teachers”?

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Question Mori refers to the Japanese teacher “like the biblical God.” Why is this?

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Question Why is it that the middle-aged women of Japan cannot go back to school for additional education?

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