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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. What is Tree-ear sent to collect that day that is different from the last 9 days?
(a) Quartz.
(b) Clay.
(c) Wood.
(d) Balsite.

2. What is the name of the vase that has dozens of birds inlaid inside medallions surrounded by clouds?
(a) The Cranes Landing Vase.
(b) The Forging of a Thousand Sands Vase.
(c) Thousand Cranes Vase.
(d) The Vase of a Thousand Herons.

3. What does Crane-man offer?
(a) To help Tree-ear.
(b) To send Tree-ear to Crane-man's brother for an apprenticeship.
(c) To take Tree-ear to find his uncle.
(d) To talk to the healer about the apprenticeship.

4. About what is Crane-man pleased?
(a) That the Emperor has recognized their village for their rice production.
(b) At the poem Tree-ear just wrote.
(c) At Tree-ear's honorable behavior.
(d) At Tree-ear's calligraphy.

5. Where did the travelers take Tree-ear in Ch'ulp'o?
(a) To the school.
(b) To the blacksmith.
(c) To the mayor.
(d) To a local monastery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree-ear tell the farmer?

2. What does Tree-ear do with the clay after he mixes it?

3. What was different about Min's display for the judging from the other potters?

4. Where does Tree-ear hide his bowl?

5. What does Min reply to Tree-ear's request?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tree-ear do about the problem with his food and what does he find to his surprise in his bowl?

2. Whom does Tree-ear see on his way to work one day and what does the incident suggest to Tree-ear?

3. How interesting is Tree-ear's third kind of job and why is it more difficult?

4. What work of Min's does Tree-ear see the first time he goes to Min's house?

5. How does Tree-ear break one of Min's boxes?

6. What does the emissary do when he arrives at the village?

7. How does Crane-man feel about Tree-ear's behavior?

8. What is the third job to which Tree-ear is assigned and how does he do it?

9. What does Min's wife give Tree-ear and what does Tree-ear do with the gift?

10. How does Tree-ear finally find out what Kang is doing?

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