Reading Comprehension Quiz
Kyoko Mori, “School”
Read “School” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.
1. What country’s education system is Mori comparing to the United States’ system?
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2. Mori says that this is more interesting than the “real world”:
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3. 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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4. Why doesn’t Mori write in Japanese?
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5. How did Mori learn how to write in English?
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6. In the Zen style of teaching, what is “beyond human description”?
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7. What is the paradox that Mori observes in both the Zen style of teaching and the American style?
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8. What did Mori’s stepmother say that Mori thinks is “in its meanest form the universal frustration of teachers”?
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9. Mori refers to the Japanese teacher “like the biblical God.” Why is this?
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10. Why is it that the middle-aged women of Japan cannot go back to school for additional education?
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