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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is stolen from Hideyo's room at home?
(a) A record player, a mirror, and clothes.
(b) A mirror, a book, and a gun.
(c) A book, a painting, and a gun.
(d) A clock, a radio, and clothes.

2. What do the police barge into the family's home and take in addition to mother's wedding ring?
(a) Books.
(b) Wire-rimmed glasses.
(c) Silver necklace.
(d) Family heirlooms.

3. Who gives the family some difficulty?
(a) The doctor.
(b) The nurse.
(c) The stationmaster.
(d) The pregnant woman.

4. What does Ko give the man who helps them get aboard the train?
(a) A cheese sandwich.
(b) A watch.
(c) Money.
(d) Roasted corn.

5. What theme does the story allude to?
(a) Atrocities are an unavoidable result of war.
(b) Persecution is a natural result of prejudice.
(c) Kind acts are rarely repaid.
(d) War is often the result of a misunderstanding.

6. What is a plausible explanation for the Russians not realizing that Hideyo and his friends were Japanese and not Korean?
(a) The Russians don't speak Korean so they didn't know any better.
(b) The Russians are too trusting of the enemy.
(c) The Russians may have assumed that Japanese and Koreans looked the same.
(d) The Russians don't realize Hideyo was speaking Japanese.

7. What risk do the nurse and medic take on the train bound for Seoul?
(a) They let the family go free.
(b) They provide the family with an alternate identity.
(c) They lie about the condition of Yoko's family.
(d) They take Yoko and Ko into hiding.

8. Where do Yoko and family hide when they hear marching feet?
(a) Among wild irises.
(b) In the bamboo grove.
(c) In a warehouse.
(d) Among the troops.

9. How long is the journey to Pusan by train?
(a) One week.
(b) Five days.
(c) Three days.
(d) A few hours.

10. Who is the train station crowded with?
(a) Japanese people.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) The sick and wounded.
(d) Immigrants.

11. Why does Hideyo fail the written test for the military?
(a) He doesn't study.
(b) He can't read.
(c) He fails on purpose.
(d) He fails by accident.

12. Why do the Korean Communists resent the Japanese?
(a) Because the Japanese killed so many Koreans in World War I.
(b) Because they were racists.
(c) Because they believed in a different religion.
(d) Because they were under Japanese rule for so long.

13. Which character is chosen to entertain soldiers at the hospital?
(a) Mother.
(b) Mr. Enomoto.
(c) Hideyo.
(d) Yoko.

14. Why do the Korean Communists stage a raid at Hideyo's workplace?
(a) To take supplies.
(b) To steal military secrets.
(c) To recruit new soldiers.
(d) To kill Japanese youth.

15. What outrages Hideyo?
(a) The loss of his family.
(b) The disappearance of his friends.
(c) The ignorance of the Russians.
(d) The cruelty of the Korean Communists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ko find food for the family?

2. What food does Hideyo share with his friends?

3. Why do the soldiers quickly leave the boxcar in which Yoko, Ko, and Mother are located?

4. What does Ko manage to get from the farmer by speaking to him in Korean?

5. What precious family treasure does Mother use in Chapter 3?

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