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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the object that Tree-ear is holding?
(a) Tree-ear gives it to Min.
(b) Tree-ear gives it to Crane-man.
(c) Tree-ear drops it, and it breaks.
(d) Tree-ear asks to learn how to make it.

2. Why did Tree-ear think Kang might have something special for the kiln?
(a) The wheel barrel he pushed to the kiln was covered.
(b) He went to the kiln the long way through the woods.
(c) He posted a sign saying the kiln was full but it shouldn't have been.
(d) He went to the kiln at midnight.

3. Where do the travelers take Tree-ear?
(a) To stay temporarily with Crane-man.
(b) To another small village ten miles away.
(c) To the herb woman's house.
(d) Back to Songdo.

4. About what does Min complain?
(a) His nephew does not want to apprentice with him.
(b) Tree-ear has ruined several days work.
(c) His wife wants a new stove.
(d) His arthritis is bothering him.

5. Why did a potter want a vessel off the shelf in the kiln?
(a) So the shelf wouldn't break.
(b) The vessels sat directly on the shelf.
(c) So air could circulate.
(d) So it wouldn't fuse with the shelf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changed with Min about working on the potter's wheel?

2. What type of pottery did Tree-ear plan to be his first one?

3. Who is Crane-man?

4. Tree-ear prepares the clay for __________.

5. What did potters before Kang and Min try to do sometimes with red slip?

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