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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 story does Crane-man tell Tree-ear?
(a) The sea dragons.
(b) The prince and the peasant.
(c) The princess and the peasant.
(d) The story of how Tree-ear comes to live with Crane-man.

2. What did Min make more than other potters?
(a) Wine cups.
(b) Purple glazed vases.
(c) Nothing.
(d) More replicates of a piece of pottery.

3. What does Min do as Tree-ear is holding some nesting boxes?
(a) Beats Tree-ear about the head with his cane.
(b) Makes a vase on the wheel.
(c) SShows Tree-ear how he spun the wheel to make the box.
(d) Offers to show Tree-ear how to pick out the best clay.

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

5. What is one thing Tree-ear inspects at Min's?
(a) A porcelein bear.
(b) A melon-shaped bowl.
(c) A stoneware, heart-shaped bowl.
(d) A procelein seal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Min insist upon that makes Tree-ear's job even more tedious?

2. What was different about Min's display for the judging from the other potters?

3. What changed with Min about working on the potter's wheel?

4. Who is Min?

5. What does Tree-ear discover after a few days?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How interesting is Tree-ear's third kind of job and why is it more difficult?

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. How does Tree-ear finally find out what Kang is doing?

5. What is the story of how Tree-ear came to live with Crane-man?

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

7. What kind of work is cutting clay and what does Tree-ear remember while he is cutting?

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

9. What does Tree-ear do with his bowl the next day of work and what happens to the food?

10. What does Min's wife give Tree-ear and what does Tree-ear do with the gift?

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