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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the train station crowded with?
(a) Immigrants.
(b) The sick and wounded.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Japanese people.

2. How does Yoko nearly reveal the family's hiding place in Chapter 2?
(a) By sneezing.
(b) By tripping.
(c) By throwing up.
(d) By crying.

3. Why do the soldiers quickly leave the boxcar in which Yoko, Ko, and Mother are located?
(a) They are under attack.
(b) They are summoned to the front of the train.
(c) They are afraid of catching a disease.
(d) They hear a riot in the next boxcar.

4. Why does Yoko's family live in Korea?
(a) The family was exiled.
(b) Father works for the government in Manchuria.
(c) The family was in hiding.
(d) Father is a native Korean.

5. Why do the Korean Communists resent the Japanese?
(a) Because the Japanese killed so many Koreans in World War I.
(b) Because they were under Japanese rule for so long.
(c) Because they believed in a different religion.
(d) Because they were racists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character becomes a friend of Yoko's family?

2. What does Yoko do to one of the policemen?

3. What does Hideyo do instead of going to war?

4. Why does Mother ties strings to Yoko's and Ko's wrists?

5. Why does Hideyo fail the written test for the military?

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