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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives during the special dinner on the first day of school?
(a) The boy who makes faces.
(b) The teacher.
(c) The police.
(d) A missionary.

2. How are they going to arrive at their destination?
(a) By wagon.
(b) They are going to walk across the frozen river.
(c) By bus.
(d) By car.

3. What does the teacher tell the boy about how his father would react to the field trip?
(a) He wouldn't have approved.
(b) He would have wished that he could be there, too.
(c) He would have thought the trip was extremely valuable.
(d) He would have thought it was a waste of time.

4. Why is the father weak?
(a) He has recently been ill.
(b) He is getting old.
(c) He has been in jail for years for his resistance-movement activities.
(d) He is fasting.

5. What religion do the father and mother follow?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Taoism.
(d) Judaism.

6. What does the father tell his friends to have?
(a) Money.
(b) Food.
(c) Chutzpa.
(d) Patience.

7. What does the maid call the boy?
(a) Stubborn.
(b) Adorable.
(c) Master.
(d) Stupid.

8. Where does the mother wait for the father?
(a) Outside the station house.
(b) Inside the station house.
(c) On the train.
(d) In town.

9. Where does the teacher take the boy?
(a) To a Chinese restaurant.
(b) To a disciplinary room in the school.
(c) To the beach.
(d) To the field.

10. What kind of faces does the boy who follows the author to school make?
(a) Comical faces.
(b) Mean faces.
(c) Pig faces.
(d) Threatening faces.

11. What happens to the students if they don't bow toward the Japanese Emperor?
(a) Nothing.
(b) They are beaten.
(c) They have to write an essay on the importance of respect.
(d) They have to go up on stage for a humiliating lecture.

12. What is the train compartment like?
(a) It is filthy and loud.
(b) It is comfortable and smells of jasmine tea.
(c) It wis overcrowded and stuffy.
(d) It is half empty and cold with ice on the windows.

13. Where does the family live during the summer?
(a) In an apartment in the city.
(b) In a beach house.
(c) The same place they always live.
(d) In a cottage in the middle of the orchard.

14. What happens when the teachers confront each other?
(a) They don't confront each other. They turn away from each other.
(b) They get into a physical fight.
(c) They begin to laugh at the situation.
(d) They get into a verbal battle.

15. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?
(a) They know they are going to leave the past behind them as they head for the vast unknown.
(b) Nobody has gotten off, so the compartment is still overcrowded.
(c) The baby is hungry, and they haven't had time to stop for food.
(d) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what is everyone aware?

2. What is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?

3. How do the children at the school react to him?

4. Who takes his father off the train?

5. Where does the class go on a field trip the first day of school?

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