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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 do the students do when the teacher dismissed them?
(a) They sit and wait for the boy to dismiss them.
(b) They go off to get help.
(c) They attack the teacher.
(d) They run out of the room as fast as they can.

2. What does the boy's mother allow him to choose?
(a) What plants to put around the house.
(b) Going to public school or a private school.
(c) What to wear the next day.
(d) What to eat for dessert.

3. What is happening to the Koreans all around?
(a) They are starting to become oppressed by the Russians.
(b) They are starting to become a world trade power.
(c) They are beginning to realize the value of their culture.
(d) They are starting to become oppressed by the Japanese.

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

5. What does the boy do that surprises the audience at the play?
(a) He protests the fact that someone is playing his part.
(b) He shows up even though he has beenseverely beaten and can hardly stand.
(c) He performs flawlessly.
(d) He lashes out at the Japanese from stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does one of the teachers yell at the boy and shake him and hit him?

2. What happens to the boy's uncle?

3. What time of day is it when the mother waits?

4. When the soldier asks if anyone is dying, how does the boy respond in his head?

5. How do the Koreans know the Americans won't bomb them?

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