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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. Who has Mrs. Masuda been waiting for at the train station?
(a) Her nephew.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her niece.

2. What is their first meal in the homeland?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Cooked apples.
(c) Roasted corn.
(d) Rice.

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

4. What is the condition of the warehouse when Ko and Yoko arrive?
(a) It is nicely decorated.
(b) It is overcrowded.
(c) It is clean and comfortable.
(d) It is dirty and abandoned.

5. What happens to Hideyo when he reaches the farmhouse?
(a) He finds his family.
(b) He vomits.
(c) He collapses.
(d) He dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes a letter to Yoko?

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

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

4. What is Yoko's favorite subject?

5. What does Yoko like about school?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Yoko's friendship with Mr. Naido.

2. How does Ko continue to demonstrate her survival instincts in Chapter 9?

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

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

5. What are the physical and psychological obstacles facing Hideyo in Chapter 6?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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