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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 is the weather like when they are working?
(a) It is extremely windy.
(b) It is pouring rain.
(c) It is freezing.
(d) It is burning hot.

2. What is each child in the school required to do?
(a) Write notes of encouragement to the Japanese soldiers.
(b) Eat breakfast at school.
(c) Make a wooden rifle.
(d) Write a poem for the Emperor.

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

4. What do the schoolboys invite the boy to do in the afternoon?
(a) Come to play at their houses.
(b) Watch a movie with them.
(c) Play football.
(d) Swim.

5. What does the boy observe about his classmates?
(a) They like to pull pranks on each other.
(b) They wish they were Japanese.
(c) Many are very poor and don't even have socks.
(d) They are very well-behaved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances can parents visit during the week?

2. What happens when the teachers confront each other?

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

4. What does the class helper do as he greets the teacher?

5. Why doesn't the boy quit school?

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