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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 kind of new name do the people get?
(a) Names that describe their personalities.
(b) Names give to the guards by the spirits.
(c) Long, fancy names.
(d) Japanese names.

2. What does the boy's new name mean?
(a) Plant grower.
(b) One of wealth.
(c) Rock-foundation.
(d) Great hunter.

3. What does the father tell his friends to have?
(a) Patience.
(b) Chutzpa.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.

4. What do the classmates think of the teacher who lives with them?
(a) They don't respect him.
(b) He is a father figure to them.
(c) He is greatly respected.
(d) They resent him.

5. What treaty is signed in August of 1939?
(a) The Japanese-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(b) The German-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(c) The German-Japanese Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(d) The Japanese-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What danger do they face as they cross the river?

2. How old is the author in 1933?

3. What health difficulties do they face?

4. Why doesn't the boy quit school?

5. What religion do the father and mother follow?

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