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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is Someone Dying?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy's sister want him to make her?
(a) Ice skates.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) A doll.
(d) A fort.

2. What does the visitor tell the boy?
(a) The father is in prison.
(b) The grandfather is dead.
(c) The school is sending more workers.
(d) The Japanese are losing, and the war is almost over.

3. Why does each class go to the shrine once a week?
(a) To pray for the Empire.
(b) To worship their ancestors.
(c) To worship the Emperor.
(d) To confess their wrongdoings.

4. For what does the teacher ask the students?
(a) Their new names.
(b) Attention.
(c) Money.
(d) Food.

5. How do the children at the school react to him?
(a) They overwhelm him with questions about Manchuria.
(b) They turn their backs on him and make mean gestures.
(c) They laugh and giggle at him.
(d) They greet him like he is a hero.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the teacher realize when the boy comes to talk with him?

2. What is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?

3. What position do the classmates think the boy should take over?

4. Why does one of the teachers yell at the boy and shake him and hit him?

5. Where does the teacher take the boy?

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