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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 pulling at his hair.
(b) He is yelling.
(c) He is tearing up books.
(d) He is crying.

2. Who talks with the boy about the lunch issue?
(a) The mother.
(b) The grandmother.
(c) The sister.
(d) The father.

3. What do the Japanese check on a weekly basis?
(a) Food supplies.
(b) Preparedness.
(c) Household accounts.
(d) Class attendance.

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

5. Where is the mother in February?
(a) With her parents.
(b) In Manchuria.
(c) In church.
(d) At the market.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is he upset about his lunch?

2. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?

3. What kind of faces does the boy who follows the author to school make?

4. What treaty is signed in August of 1939?

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

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