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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 does Min send him there?
(a) To get some quartz to grind.
(b) To chop wood.
(c) To bring water from the rivers.
(d) To get powders from the apothecary.

2. What does Tree-ear learn quickly?
(a) How to throw pots.
(b) How to glaze Min's pots.
(c) How to stay on Min's good side.
(d) How to get clay.

3. 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) It would be stealing.
(d) He didn't know the answer.

4. For how long does Tree-ear do the same thing for Min?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 9 days.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the travelers take Tree-ear in Ch'ulp'o?

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

3. What did Tree-ear decide when he saw Kang with his wheel barrel?

4. What does Tree-ear rotate doing?

5. What does Min reply to Tree-ear's request?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Tree-ear do for the next eight days for Min?

9. What did Tree-ear do about the rice container? What was the farmer's response?

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

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