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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the first train Yoko, Ko, and mother board in Japan smell like?
(a) Rotten fish.
(b) Garbage.
(c) A zoo.
(d) Dirty socks.

2. What is Yoko instructed to give Hideyo as a welcome gift?
(a) A letter.
(b) A kimono.
(c) A sword.
(d) A watch.

3. What is the title of Yoko's work?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Power.
(d) Depression.

4. Why does the group of soldiers want to divide up the confiscated valuables on the spot?
(a) They're afraid of losing them in their travels.
(b) They think they'll get shortchanged.
(c) They think that the Japanese people they stole from will find them.
(d) They're afraid of their superior finding out.

5. Why won't Mother leave for Aomori?
(a) They have no way to get there.
(b) They don't know where father is.
(c) It is too dangerous.
(d) They haven't found Hideyo yet.

6. What do Yoko and Ko find in the wrapping cloth?
(a) Food.
(b) A letter.
(c) Money.
(d) Diamonds.

7. Where is the refugee camp?
(a) In the field near a farmhouse.
(b) In the cafeteria of a boys' school.
(c) In the gymnasium of a public school.
(d) In the auditorium of a girls' school.

8. Where does the ship on which Yoko, Ko, and Mother were on dock?
(a) Tokyo.
(b) Rashin.
(c) Fukuoka.
(d) Nanam.

9. In addition to "trash picker," what do Yoko's classmates call her?
(a) Rag doll.
(b) Poor girl.
(c) Yoko the orphan.
(d) Dirty girl.

10. What does Yoko learn to look for in the trash to sell?
(a) Books.
(b) Cans and bottles.
(c) Extra food.
(d) Spare change.

11. What is like "tons of stone"?
(a) The blanket he carries.
(b) Hideyo's shoes.
(c) The snow Hideyo walks through.
(d) Hideyo's rucksack.

12. What do Ko and Yoko set up in the warehouse?
(a) An orphanage.
(b) A kitchen.
(c) An altar.
(d) A place to study.

13. What predicament does Yoko face after being enrolled in school for a few months?
(a) An increase in school tuition.
(b) Whether to get a job.
(c) The loss of all her possessions.
(d) Whether to continue going to school.

14. Why does Yoko hand deliver her manuscript?
(a) It is too heavy to mail.
(b) She doesn't have enough money to mail it.
(c) She is required to read it aloud to the judges.
(d) It is supposed to be hand-delivered.

15. How does Mother pay for Yoko and Ko to go to school?
(a) She has brought money from Korea.
(b) She steals the money.
(c) A friend of mother's pays.
(d) She obtained scholarships for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hideyo afraid to give into his exhaustion and sleep?

2. How does Yoko think of Ko?

3. What is on the bulletin board on Yoko's fifth day of school?

4. What happens to mother in Chapter 8?

5. What did mother tell Yoko to hold onto before she passed away?

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