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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Crane-man pleased?
(a) At Tree-ear's honorable behavior.
(b) At Tree-ear's calligraphy.
(c) At the poem Tree-ear just wrote.
(d) That the Emperor has recognized their village for their rice production.

2. Why does Tree-ear ask this of Min?
(a) To satisfy his hunger.
(b) To see how Min made the boxes.
(c) For payment for breaking the pottery.
(d) To cheer-up Crane-man.

3. Who is Crane-man?
(a) Tree-ear's guardian.
(b) The village school teacher.
(c) Tree-ear's brother.
(d) Tree-ear's best friend.

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

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

6. Why does Tree-ear feel guilty?
(a) For not being there when the boys were harassing Crane-man.
(b) For being too tired to fish for Crane-man's dinner.
(c) For wishing to leave Crane-man.
(d) For not saving some of his midday meal for Crane-man.

7. Tree-ear also prepares the clay for __________.
(a) Pot molds.
(b) Min's brother.
(c) Glaze.
(d) The kiln.

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

9. Why did Min send Tree-ear to the seashore?
(a) To gather seaweed.
(b) To go fishing.
(c) To pick up seashells.
(d) To check the weather.

10. Why does Min send him there?
(a) To get some quartz to grind.
(b) To get powders from the apothecary.
(c) To chop wood.
(d) To bring water from the rivers.

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

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

13. What is Tree-ear sent to collect that day that is different from the last 9 days?
(a) Wood.
(b) Clay.
(c) Quartz.
(d) Balsite.

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

15. Where does Tree-ear hide his bowl?
(a) Under the porch.
(b) In the garden.
(c) Under his robe.
(d) In the shed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the object that Tree-ear is holding?

2. How are orphans seen in Korea during Tree-ear's time?

3. What news did a boat bring to Tree-ear's village?

4. Why does Tree-ear decide to do what he did in question 48?

5. Why did potters try to find gray-brown clay?

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