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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 is mother wearing in Chapter 8?
(a) Rags.
(b) Her wartime national clothes.
(c) The Korean Communist uniform.
(d) A dress.

2. Why does Yoko resolve to never step into a Buddhist temple?
(a) Because the monk wouldn't say a prayer.
(b) Because mother told her not to.
(c) Because she was afraid of them.
(d) Because she wasn't a Buddhist.

3. Where is the red light that Hideyo sees coming from?
(a) A train in the distance.
(b) A soldier's bunker.
(c) His home.
(d) A farmhouse.

4. What does Yoko like about school?
(a) The girls.
(b) The teachers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The lessons.

5. How does Yoko think of Ko?
(a) Ko is bossy, but Yoko loves her.
(b) Ko is a liar, and Yoko hates her.
(c) Ko is mean, and Yoko is scared of her.
(d) Ko is nice, and Yoko likes her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is like "tons of stone"?

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

3. What is Yoko instructed to give Hideyo as a welcome gift?

4. What was father's name seal made of?

5. Where does the ship on which Yoko, Ko, and Mother were on dock?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Yoko ponders that "it was strange that we did not think more of father, whom we loved dearly" instead of Hideyo?

2. Upon mother's and Yoko's reunion at the train station, Yoko thinks to herself that she suddenly "felt grown up." What brings about this change in Yoko's sense of self?

3. Why do you think Yoko titled her essay, "Understanding?"

4. What rituals and traditions do Yoko and Ko perform in honor of New Year's? What significance do they have?

5. Why do you think Yoko would choose to write about her experiences at school rather than the ordeal she and her family endured when leaving Korea?

6. How does Yoko feel when she disembarks the boat in Fukuoka?

7. Why do you think Hideyo is so attached to Yoko's fur coat?

8. Why does Yoko find it hard to believe that the corporal has found her and Ko?

9. How does Ko demonstrate the importance of respect in Japanese culture?

10. How would you characterize Yoko's classmates' experience during the final months of the war based on the way she is received?

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