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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the farmer do for Tree-ear?
(a) Hires him to catch his chickens.
(b) Gives him permission to dig clay in his fallow field.
(c) Hires him to weed his family garden.
(d) Allows him the spilled rice.

2. What does Tree-ear mix with the clay?
(a) Water.
(b) Graphite.
(c) Quartz powder.
(d) Flour.

3. What happened to the fields after the rice harvest?
(a) They were plowed under.
(b) They were flooded.
(c) They were left alone.
(d) The poor were allowed to collect the droppings.

4. What was Tree-ear supposed to do with the wood?
(a) Chop it into smaller pieces.
(b) Take it to the kiln site.
(c) Stack it next to the house.
(d) Cover it so it didn't get wet.

5. What is Tree-ear holding when Min comes out of the house?
(a) A stoneware pitcher.
(b) A porcelein crane.
(c) A graven plate.
(d) A nesting box.

6. For how long has Tree-ear been with Crane-man?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 10 years.

7. For how long does Tree-ear do the same thing for Min?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 9 days.

8. What did Crane-man try to do during the day when Tree-ear was working?
(a) Catch a flounder.
(b) Bake bread with acorn flour.
(c) Sleep in the shade.
(d) Catch a rabbit.

9. What does Tree-ear discover when he returns to his bowl?
(a) The food was covered in ants.
(b) The bowl was gone.
(c) The food had spoiled in the heat.
(d) An animal ate his food.

10. Where is Tree-ear assigned most recently?
(a) The river banks.
(b) The quarry mines.
(c) The old forest.
(d) The drain pits.

11. Why does Tree-ear decide to do what he did in question 48?
(a) He can save half of his food at lunch for Crane-man.
(b) He is thinking of becoming a monk.
(c) He loves Crane-man like a father.
(d) Since Crane-man has no crutch to beg, Tree-ear will.

12. Why was firing a piece of pottery so difficult?
(a) The kiln could not be completely sealed.
(b) The air pockets in the clay would burst.
(c) The wood never burned the same way twice.
(d) The rain cooled it down sometimes.

13. What does Crane-man offer?
(a) To send Tree-ear to Crane-man's brother for an apprenticeship.
(b) To help Tree-ear.
(c) To talk to the healer about the apprenticeship.
(d) To take Tree-ear to find his uncle.

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

15. What does Tree-ear tell the farmer?
(a) About the hole in the rice bag.
(b) About finding a piece of jade.
(c) About the new family in town.
(d) Nothing; he is not allowed to talk to the farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the travelers take Tree-ear in Ch'ulp'o?

2. About what does Min complain?

3. What does Min do the next morning when Tree-ear arrives?

4. What sloshed out of two bowls that Kang was carrying while Tree-ear was watching him?

5. What excites Tree-ear?

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