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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it particularly hurtful to the Koreans to lose their names?
(a) They have great respect for their ancestors.
(b) They have lost everything else.
(c) They can't pronounce the new names.
(d) They always have to do what the Japanese demand, and it's humiliating.

2. Why are the Korean farmers limiting their crops?
(a) It's a bad year.
(b) They don't have the money to plant.
(c) They are tired of farming.
(d) The Japanese are requisitioning their growth.

3. What happens to the students if they don't bow toward the Japanese Emperor?
(a) They have to go up on stage for a humiliating lecture.
(b) They are beaten.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They have to write an essay on the importance of respect.

4. What is the view outside the classroom?
(a) They look over the soldier's training ground.
(b) They have no windows so they can't tell.
(c) All they see is the brick wall of the next building.
(d) It's beautiful.

5. What does the corporal ask the boy to do?
(a) Dig some more.
(b) Make the beds.
(c) Fill his water bottle.
(d) Take a break.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the class members live?

2. How does the boy get to school?

3. What does the grandmother put in the boy's lunch that upsets him?

4. Years later, what do they discover in the shrine?

5. How does the boy feel as he leaves the school on his first day?

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