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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tree-ear's response to Crane-man's offer?
(a) He does not know his uncle.
(b) He is happy with Crane-man.
(c) He does not want help.
(d) He does not want to be a healer.

2. What did Crane-man do sometimes at the rice fields?
(a) Begged for rice.
(b) Talked to the women of the village.
(c) Weaved mats and sandals out of rice straw.
(d) Slept.

3. In what century is A Single Shard set?
(a) 15th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 14th.
(d) 12th.

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

5. What does Tree-ear do about the bowl?
(a) He finds a more secure place to hide it.
(b) He decides to make a new one.
(c) He fills it with water, and the ants float away.
(d) He asks Min for one.

6. What excites Tree-ear?
(a) Getting a hot meal.
(b) Catching a catfish.
(c) Min calling him son.
(d) Catching some crawfish.

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

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

9. What does Min insist upon that makes Tree-ear's job even more tedious?
(a) Processing the clay sometimes 4 or 5 times.
(b) Tree-ear must follow Min's helpful advice.
(c) Tree-ear must stand as Tree-ear is working.
(d) Tree-ear must help Min sometimes.

10. What did Tree-ear decide when he saw Kang with his wheel barrel?
(a) To be there when the kiln opened in a few days.
(b) Kang was pretending to do something important.
(c) Kang had gone crazy.
(d) Kang was stealing from the village.

11. Where does Min send Tree-ear the second day?
(a) To get straw.
(b) To help a potter who is ill.
(c) To weed the garden.
(d) To get wood.

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

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

14. Why did potters try to find gray-brown clay?
(a) It was considered holy.
(b) It was waterproof.
(c) It fused well with the celadon glaze.
(d) It was the strongest clay.

15. Where did the travelers take Tree-ear in Ch'ulp'o?
(a) To the mayor.
(b) To a local monastery.
(c) To the school.
(d) To the blacksmith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tree-ear also prepares the clay for __________.

2. In which area of Korea is the novel set?

3. What opens up when the winter storms stop?

4. What does the farmer do for Tree-ear?

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

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