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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. Why did potters try to find gray-brown clay?
(a) It was considered holy.
(b) It was waterproof.
(c) It fused well with the celadon glaze.
(d) It was the strongest clay.

2. Why was firing a piece of pottery so difficult?
(a) The kiln could not be completely sealed.
(b) The rain cooled it down sometimes.
(c) The wood never burned the same way twice.
(d) The air pockets in the clay would burst.

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

4. About what does Min complain?
(a) His nephew does not want to apprentice with him.
(b) His arthritis is bothering him.
(c) Tree-ear has ruined several days work.
(d) His wife wants a new stove.

5. What did the village potters begin to do at the kiln?
(a) Pace restlessly.
(b) Load it with more pottery.
(c) Use a different kind of wood.
(d) Fight over taking turns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one thing Tree-ear inspects at Min's?

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

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

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

5. Where does Min send Tree-ear the second day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Whom does Tree-ear see on his way to work one day and what does the incident suggest to Tree-ear?

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

6. What does Tree-ear do to pay for the box and how is he disappointed?

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

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

9. What do the potters in town do about the news?

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

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