Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood Test | Final Test - Hard

Richard E. Kim
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood Test | Final Test - Hard

Richard E. Kim
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are all the people doing at the cemetery?

2. What happens when the boy won't apologize?

3. Where does the father get his inspiration for the name?

4. When the soldier asks if anyone is dying, how does the boy respond in his head?

5. How is the boy's visitor dressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is February like?

2. How do the people in the town show the boy their support?

3. Why is the morning in the household hectic? Describe the breakfast schedule.

4. Why does the boy have an issue with his white rice?

5. How does the teacher react to the boy's information?

6. The boy is having trouble with his collection. What is his dilemma, and with what solution does his grandmother come up?

7. Explain the quandary the classmates are in when the teacher starts attacking the boy? How do they react, and what is the boy's response to them?

8. What is the irony of the shrine that the children have to go to weekly?

9. What decision does the boy have to make, and what does he tell the Japanese teacher?

10. What happens when the students have oozing blisters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The scene where the boy dragged himself to the performance is emotional on several levels. Explain how his family supported him, how he made his protest, and how he reacted emotionally when he started saying his lines. Why do you think he reacted like that?

Essay Topic 2

What happened politically in August of 1939 that changed the map, and what did this signify? How did the teacher react to the change?

Essay Topic 3

The Japanese teacher made comments which implied that he knew that if the boy left, things were going badly and the end was near. Why did he say that, and what was actually happening in Germany and Japan?

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