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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. How does the mother react when the train starts moving?
(a) She starts screaming at the conductor.
(b) She starts running up and down the corridor looking for her husband.
(c) She faints.
(d) She gets off the train.

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

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

4. In what activity do the boys plan to participate during the afternoon?
(a) Baseball.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Soccer.
(d) Kite-flying.

5. What does the grandfather give the boy for the first time at dinner on his first day of school?
(a) A journal.
(b) Rice wine.
(c) His own chopsticks.
(d) A revolver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the adults do while the boy is looking through books and magazines?

2. What is the train compartment like?

3. In what grade is the boy when they move back from Manchuria?

4. Where does the train stop?

5. What do the father's papers say?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the father show his dedication to his wife?

2. What is crossing the river like?

3. What is significant about the maps in the classroom?

4. How does the family travel to the town?

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

6. Why had the woman's father been sent to jail?

7. How do the people in the train cart treat the mother after the father is taken away?

8. How does the boy feel about leaving Manchuria?

9. What will happen to the tenant farmer when he gets a wife?

10. Explain why the boy says that the morning formation is like a military formation.

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