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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Once upon aTime, on a Sunday.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do they confront when they are near their destination?
(a) Mobs of people ready to send them back.
(b) Police barricades.
(c) Cracks in the ice near the shoreline.
(d) Political protests.

3. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?
(a) The boy who makes faces.
(b) His father.
(c) His friends in Manchuria.
(d) His mother.

4. How old is the author in 1933?
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 1.
(d) 7.

5. What is the view outside the classroom?
(a) They have no windows so they can't tell.
(b) All they see is the brick wall of the next building.
(c) It's beautiful.
(d) They look over the soldier's training ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the teacher tell the boy about how his father would react to the field trip?

2. In what tradition does the teacher ask the boy to participate on his first day in school?

3. What is the train compartment like?

4. What does the maid call the boy?

5. Who is supposed to help the mother?

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