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

2. Of what is everyone aware?
(a) They are on the cusp of war.
(b) There are too many cultures intermixing.
(c) The Koreans are rising in power.
(d) The missionaries are getting too pushy.

3. What do the inquisitors accuse the father of doing?
(a) Sneaking out of the country.
(b) Spying.
(c) Murder.
(d) Stealing some important papers.

4. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are sentenced to community service for a month.
(c) They enter the army as unwilling "volunteers."
(d) They are sent to jail.

5. What does the father say the teacher is?
(a) Presumptuous.
(b) Arrogant.
(c) Timid.
(d) Unfair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?

3. Where does the family live during the summer?

4. What does the boy observe about his classmates?

5. Why is the father weak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experience has the mother had with jail?

2. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

3. How does the family show support for the boy when he goes off to school?

4. What kind of breakfast does the grandmother make for the family and why?

5. How do the Japanese treat the Koreans according to the grandfather?

6. How is the boy's family financially?

7. What kind of character does the teacher have?

8. What is the morning assembly like at the school?

9. Why does the boy pretend to be asleep when his mother wakes him up on Sundays?

10. The author states that they are leaving their homeland which is not a homeland. Why does he say this?

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