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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Homecoming.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position do the classmates think the boy should take over?
(a) Quarterback.
(b) Class negotiator.
(c) First baseman.
(d) Class leader.

2. How do the other passengers react when the father is being questioned?
(a) They ask why he is being questioned.
(b) They push the inquisitors out of the compartment.
(c) They stand up and defend him.
(d) They turn their heads and look away.

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

4. What does the father tell the mother the baby is doing as they cross the river?
(a) Eating.
(b) Gurgling happily.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Smiling.

5. Who takes his father off the train?
(a) The Korean Thought Policeman and the Korean Military Policeman.
(b) The conductor.
(c) The engineer.
(d) The Japanese Thought Policeman and the Japanese Military Policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the view outside the classroom?

2. What does the boy do to the other boy who accuses him?

3. How old is the author in 1933?

4. What does the grandfather say that the Japanese can't take away?

5. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?

(see the answer key)

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