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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 was father's name seal made of?
(a) Ivory.
(b) Metal.
(c) Stone.
(d) Jade.

2. What does Ko make from the Korean Communists' uniforms?
(a) A dress for Mrs. Masuda.
(b) Pants for herself.
(c) Pants for Mr. Masuda.
(d) A coat for Yoko.

3. What does Hideyo sleep on?
(a) His sister's fur coat.
(b) A thin mattress.
(c) The ground.
(d) A blanket.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hideyo consider the moon "unsympathetic"?

2. Who is Yoko's only friend at school?

3. What physical attribute is Yoko very self-conscious about?

4. In addition to "trash picker," what do Yoko's classmates call her?

5. What is the name of the story Yoko wrote in first grade?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Chapter 8 begins, Yoko feels that she has nothing except for one thing. What does she have?

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

3. What evidence is there that deep down, Ko is still a young girl?

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

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

6. At this point in the story, what defines "normal" for Yoko and Ko?

7. 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?

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

9. Describe the dichotomy of the Tokyo train station.

10. What role do Ko and Yoko play in Mother's death ritual?

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