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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the train compartment like?
(a) It is comfortable and smells of jasmine tea.
(b) It is filthy and loud.
(c) It wis overcrowded and stuffy.
(d) It is half empty and cold with ice on the windows.

2. Where does the train stop?
(a) In Manchuria.
(b) Right next to an open field.
(c) In the middle of the bridge.
(d) It stops at the last Korean town before Manchuria.

3. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?
(a) The baby is hungry, and they haven't had time to stop for food.
(b) Nobody has gotten off, so the compartment is still overcrowded.
(c) They know they are going to leave the past behind them as they head for the vast unknown.
(d) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.

4. Who is supposed to help the mother?
(a) The police.
(b) The conductor.
(c) The station clerk.
(d) The father.

5. What is happening to the Koreans all around?
(a) They are starting to become oppressed by the Japanese.
(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 Russians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the mother and father follow?

2. How do the other passengers react when the father is being questioned?

3. What do they confront when they are near their destination?

4. Why is the father leaving the country?

5. How does the mother react when the train starts moving?

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