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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 did the bandit say to Tree-ear when a second man overcame the boy and Tree-ear still struggled?
(a) He didn't have anything they wanted.
(b) They only wanted his coins.
(c) They only wanted food.
(d) To stop, or they would do worse than robbery.

2. What did Tree-ear do at Min's house the day the emissary awarded the commission to Kang?
(a) Chopped wood.
(b) Nothing, Min sent him home.
(c) Scrubbed the potter's wheel.
(d) Pulled weeds in the garden.

3. What did Crane-man do when Tree-ear yelled at him about Min's wife?
(a) Laughed.
(b) Yelled back.
(c) Walked away.
(d) Cried.

4. With what did they stuff the two vases that were packed in the basket?
(a) Mud.
(b) Rice straw.
(c) Old cloth.
(d) Silk.

5. What did Tree-ear do to protect himself from the broken pottery?
(a) Wrapped it in his clay.
(b) Wrapped it in the silk that was inside the pottery.
(c) Wrapped it in his tunic.
(d) Wrapped it in rice straw from his jiggeh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the vessels if the heat in the kiln rises too fast?

2. What did Tree-ear tell the emissary was the number of pieces he will most likely receive from Min a year?

3. What animal did Tree-ear see on his first night of sleeping alone in the woods?

4. How often did Tree-ear eat on the second part of his journey?

5. How does Tree-ear act towards Crane-man when he comes back to the bridge after his pack is done?

Short Essay Questions

1. What concerns Min about the emissary's kindness and what does Tree-ear tell Min's wife?

2. In Chapter 7, what does Tree-ear finally tell Min and what does Min have Tree-ear do? What does Tree-ear realize he has learned when he performs his task?

3. How does Tree-ear feel when he arrives back in Ch'ulp'o and where does Min's wife send him?

4. What does Min say to Tree-ear's suggestion and what is Tree-ear's response to her?

5. What does Tree-ear realize he can do?

6. What happens on the sixth day of Tree-ear's journey and how does he feel about it?

7. How does Tree-ear feel and what does he do after the two men leave him at the Rock?

8. How does Tree-ear feel about what Min said to him?

9. What does Min do over the next few months?

10. What does Tree-ear first do at the Rock of Falling Flowers?

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