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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tree-ear decide to do?
(a) Go to the temple and beg for food.
(b) Take his bowl to work the next day.
(c) Go to the monastery and beg for food.
(d) Go catch a fish for Crane-man.

2. What was Tree-ear's first thought about what Min said to him in question # 120?
(a) It was not his fault.
(b) Tree-ear was old enough to chop wood.
(c) Tree-ear did not consider himself clumsy.
(d) Min would change his mind.

3. What hope did Tree-ear have day after day while working for Min?
(a) He would earn some money.
(b) He would learn to use the wheel.
(c) Min would adopt him as a son.
(d) Crane-man and he would live in Min's house.

4. What does Tree-ear find difficult?
(a) Taking care of Crane-man.
(b) Pleasing Min.
(c) Liking Min.
(d) Cutting clay from the river bank.

5. Why did Tree-ear's attitude toward work change?
(a) He was spendning too much time away from Crane-man.
(b) He was not making any money.
(c) He was tired of chopping wood.
(d) He lost his dream of being a potter.

Short Answer Questions

1. When would the potters find out the emissary's decision?

2. What did the village potters begin to do at the kiln?

3. What news did a boat bring to Tree-ear's village?

4. What happened to the fields after the rice harvest?

5. What does Tree-ear do with the clay after he mixes it?

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