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

2. What does Tree-ear request of Min?
(a) To get an apple off Min's tree.
(b) To be allowed to work for Min.
(c) To take the crane figurine to Crane-man.
(d) To be allowed to watch Min work.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Min send him there?

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

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

4. For how long has Tree-ear been with Crane-man?

5. Why was firing a piece of pottery so difficult?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What will Tree-ear and Crane-man have to do for the winter?

5. What does Min do the first thing when Tree-ear arrives on his second morning?

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

7. What is the third job to which Tree-ear is assigned and how does he do it?

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

9. What does Crane-man do during the day and what does he make Tree-ear?

10. Why did Tree-ear stay with Crane-man?

(see the answer keys)

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