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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of day is it when the mother waits?
(a) It is midmorning.
(b) The dawn is just breaking.
(c) It is night.
(d) It is close to noon.

2. In what tradition does the teacher ask the boy to participate on his first day in school?
(a) He must sing a song.
(b) He must tell them about his past.
(c) He must share his goals for the future.
(d) He must share his lunch with the others.

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

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

5. What does the grandfather give the boy for the first time at dinner on his first day of school?
(a) His own chopsticks.
(b) Rice wine.
(c) A journal.
(d) A revolver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the map in the classroom depict?

2. What happens to the students if they don't bow toward the Japanese Emperor?

3. In what grade is the boy when they move back from Manchuria?

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

5. What does the maid call the boy?

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