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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did the emissary and his entourage spend the night at Tree-ear's village?

3. What was the farmer carrying?

4. What sloshed out of two bowls that Kang was carrying while Tree-ear was watching him?

5. What does Tree-ear discover when he returns to his bowl?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

While Tree-ear was on his first day at his job with Min Crane-man tried to catch a flounder but was unable to do so. In a fit of anger he hit a rock with his crutch and broke the crutch. Tree-ear felt guilty that he was not there to catch flounder and that he did not even think of Crane-man when he ate his midday meal.

1. What can be learned from Crane-man breaking his crutch in a fit of anger? Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

2. Do you think Tree-ear should have felt guilty about not bringing Crane-man some of his midday food considering the amount of physical labor Tree-ear had to do? Why or why not? Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. Although Crane-man did not get a flounder and he broke his crutch and Tree-ear felt ashamed about his selfishness, they ended the evening having fun with each other. Talk about the character traits this type of ending to a hard day indicates. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Tree-ear seems to be an honest, hard-working, and responsible boy.

1. Knowing what you know of Tree-ear's life thus far, how is do you think he could have developed the traits he demonstrates by his courage and persistence? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What do you think is shown by Tree-ear's actions, given that Tree-ear going to Songdo by walking might be similar to a boy walking to a town 200 miles away in our present society? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Do you think Tree-ear's behavior and actions are consistent with his age? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

A Single Shard takes place in the twelfth century in Korea.

1. Discuss the differences you see in the technological level between Tree-ear's time. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

2. Discuss the differences and similarities you see between family and social life in Tree-ear's era and your own. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

3. Discuss why you would like to live in Tree-ear's time and why you would not like to live then. Include examples from the book and your own life to illustrate your answer.

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