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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what shape was Min making his pottery in anticipation of the emissary's final visit?
(a) Oblong.
(b) Square.
(c) Melon shape.
(d) Triangular.

2. What is Min's response to Tree-ear's request?
(a) He says the apples are quite sour.
(b) He tells Tree-ear to take the crane figure to his guardian.
(c) He says he does not let anyone watch him work.
(d) He reluctantly agrees.

3. What did Tree-ear find to take to the palace?
(a) A very small piece of the first vase.
(b) A large piece of the second vase.
(c) All of the pieces of the second vase.
(d) Four pieces, two from the first vase and two from the second.

4. Why did Min smash all the vases that had inlays?
(a) The vessels had cracked.
(b) The glaze had been ruined with brown splotches.
(c) The inlays had fallen out.
(d) The vessels had fused.

5. What did Tree-ear do at Min's house the day the emissary awarded the commission to Kang?
(a) Chopped wood.
(b) Pulled weeds in the garden.
(c) Scrubbed the potter's wheel.
(d) Nothing, Min sent him home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tree-ear's response to Crane-man's offer?

2. What does Tree-ear ask of Min?

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

4. Where does the emissary wish Min to bring any inlay vessels he makes?

5. What does Crane-man tell Tree-ear about how to think of Tree-ear's journey?

(see the answer key)

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