Reading Comprehension Quiz (Kyoko Mori, “School”)
Reading Comprehension Quiz
Read “School” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.
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What country’s education system is Mori comparing to the United States’ system?
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Mori says that this is more interesting than the “real world”:
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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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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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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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Mori refers to the Japanese teacher “like the biblical God.” Why is this?
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Why is it that the middle-aged women of Japan cannot go back to school for additional education?
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