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

2. In addition to Japanese, who are the Korean Communists killing?
(a) Women and children.
(b) Men over the age of 18.
(c) Communist resisters.
(d) Russians.

3. What is the name of the story Yoko wrote in first grade?
(a) Japanese Traditions.
(b) My Family.
(c) Life Abroad.
(d) Canary Bird.

4. How has the janitor at Yoko's school changed in Chapter 8?
(a) His stutter is worse.
(b) He begins to sing.
(c) He begins to speak more fluently.
(d) He goes mute.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the first train Yoko, Ko, and mother board in Japan smell like?

2. Why can't Yoko go to the hotel alone?

3. What do Yoko and Ko find in the wrapping cloth?

4. What do Yoko and Ko use as an urn to store the important ashes?

5. How had Hideyo felt about snow when he lived in Nanam?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the emotions Ko and Yoko experience in the first few pages of Chapter 9.

4. How do Yoko and Ko carry out the Japanese death ritual and show respect for mother?

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

6. In order to survive for as long as Hideyo has in the conditions he has endured, what character traits do you think he possesses?

7. Why do you think that mother insists that Yoko and Ko continue their education?

8. Do you think the geese Hideyo sees flying are a symbol of anything? If so, what?

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

10. 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?

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