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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree-ear tell the farmer?

2. What does Crane-man offer?

3. Where did Tree-ear and Crane-man live during the winter?

4. What excites Tree-ear?

5. Why did Min send Tree-ear to the seashore?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tree-ear do at Min's house?

2. What does Tree-ear do about the problem with his food and what does he find to his surprise in his bowl?

3. Why does Tree-ear feel guilty at home on his first night of work? What does he decide to do about his shame?

4. What work of Min's does Tree-ear see the first time he goes to Min's house?

5. What exciting news reaches the village in Chapter 6?

6. What does Tree-ear do the day before the big event and what does Min order him to do?

7. How does Tree-ear break one of Min's boxes?

8. How does Crane-man feel about Tree-ear's behavior?

9. What does Tree-ear try to find out and how does his quest end?

10. What does the emissary do when he arrives at the village?

(see the answer keys)

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