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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What news did a boat bring to Tree-ear's village?
(a) A royal emissary was coming to the village.
(b) China had invaded the country.
(c) There was a new queen.
(d) The emperor had died.

3. What happens to Tree-ear as a result of the day's work?
(a) He impresses the healer who offers him an apprenticeship.
(b) He gets a bad blister.
(c) He falls asleep without eating.
(d) He falls into the river and almost drowns.

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

5. How are orphans seen in Korea during Tree-ear's time?
(a) As immoral.
(b) As good luck.
(c) As no different than anyone else.
(d) As bad luck.

6. What kind of branch did Tree-ear bring Min for a vase on display?
(a) He did not get a branch for any vase.
(b) A branch of cherry blossoms.
(c) A whip-o-willow branch.
(d) A flowering plum branch.

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

8. What is the name of the vase that has dozens of birds inlaid inside medallions surrounded by clouds?
(a) The Vase of a Thousand Herons.
(b) The Cranes Landing Vase.
(c) The Forging of a Thousand Sands Vase.
(d) Thousand Cranes Vase.

9. What did Crane-man tell Tree-ear about the boy informing Min of Kang's work?
(a) For Tree-ear to ask Kang.
(b) It would be all right.
(c) He didn't know the answer.
(d) It would be stealing.

10. What did Min's wife give Tree-ear?
(a) A pair of pants and a jacket.
(b) Leather boots.
(c) A hat and some gloves.
(d) A warm scarf.

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

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

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

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

15. 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 see Kang's wine cup.
(d) To bring wood to it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Tree-ear?

2. For what is Tree-ear scavenging?

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

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

5. What does Crane-man offer?

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