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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through An Empire for Rubber Balls.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the teacher doing after the bookshop experience that makes the boy comment to his father?
(a) He is crying.
(b) He is tearing up books.
(c) He is pulling at his hair.
(d) He is yelling.

2. What is each child in the school required to do?
(a) Make a wooden rifle.
(b) Write notes of encouragement to the Japanese soldiers.
(c) Eat breakfast at school.
(d) Write a poem for the Emperor.

3. What honor is bestowed upon the boy?
(a) He is the class leader.
(b) He is the class treasurer.
(c) He reads the scriptures.
(d) He is the acolyte.

4. How does the author feel about the month of February?
(a) It's a month for reflection.
(b) It's a month for planning for spring.
(c) It's a gloomy and cruel month.
(d) It's a month of hope.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who arrives during the special dinner on the first day of school?

3. What does the grandfather say that the Japanese can't take away?

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

5. Of what is everyone aware?

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