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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?
(a) The boy who makes faces.
(b) His father.
(c) His friends in Manchuria.
(d) His mother.

2. Where does the teacher take the boy?
(a) To a disciplinary room in the school.
(b) To the field.
(c) To a Chinese restaurant.
(d) To the beach.

3. What are the students told about Germany?
(a) They are told that America has joined forces with Germany.
(b) They are told that Germany has surrendered.
(c) They are told that Germany is giving Japan more munitions.
(d) They are told nothing about a surrender.

4. Where has the boy's father been taken?
(a) To a detention camp.
(b) To talk with the Emperor.
(c) To the police headquarters.
(d) To the market.

5. How does the father react when someone offers his spot on line to the father?
(a) He pretends that he doesn't hear the man.
(b) He respectfully refuses to change spots.
(c) He thanks him and changes spots.
(d) He takes the spot as if he deserves it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the teacher in the sleeping quarters ask of the boy?

2. What does the boy's new name mean?

3. What flag is flying on the flagpole at the school?

4. What do the classmates think of the teacher who lives with them?

5. Who arrives during the special dinner on the first day of school?

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