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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What changed with Min about working on the potter's wheel?
(a) He no longer sang at the wheel.
(b) He allowed Tree-ear to help him.
(c) He used less water.
(d) His wife helped him on the wheel.

4. Who is Min?
(a) The brother of Tree-ear's best friend.
(b) The best potter in Ch'ulp'o.
(c) The head of the monastery.
(d) The best baker in Ch'ulp'o.

5. In which area of Korea is the novel set?
(a) Eastern coast.
(b) The heart of Korea.
(c) Western coast.
(d) Northern mountains.

6. Why did Tree-ear visit the kiln every night in Chapter 6?
(a) To stand close and get warm.
(b) To see if it needed more wood.
(c) To bring wood to it.
(d) To see Kang's wine cup.

7. What does Tree-ear do when he does not find Min?
(a) Sits outside the yard and waits.
(b) Sneaks into Min's yard to look at his work.
(c) Goes to see Chang.
(d) Goes back to Crane-man.

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

9. What was the problem with the sandals Crane-man gave Tree-ear?
(a) They were too large.
(b) They were too small.
(c) They had no left and right foot.
(d) They fell apart.

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

11. What sloshed out of two bowls that Kang was carrying while Tree-ear was watching him?
(a) Wine.
(b) Water.
(c) Milk.
(d) Clay slip.

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

13. Where did Tree-ear and Crane-man live during the winter?
(a) In a house in the village.
(b) In a cave in the hills.
(c) A vegetable pit.
(d) At the temple.

14. What did Min tell Tree-ear to do about setting up the planks for his display?
(a) Set them so the sea was in the background.
(b) Put the planks so the ocean was to the front.
(c) Set the larger planks on the top.
(d) Scatter seashells around the pottery to distract the emissary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What opens up when the winter storms stop?

2. Why did monks sendTree-ear to Ch'ulp'o?

3. Why does Tree-ear feel guilty?

4. Tree-ear prepares the clay for __________.

5. What does Tree-ear realize in the middle of the first day that he is working?

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