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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is Someone Dying?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the class helper do as he greets the teacher?
(a) He shakes his hand.
(b) He extends a gift to the teacher.
(c) He bows.
(d) He salutes.

2. What changes are going to happen in school?
(a) All the classes are going to be taught in Japanese, even for the lower grades.
(b) The classes are going to be merged.
(c) The students are going to begin military training.
(d) The older students will be allowed to talk in Korean.

3. Where has the boy's father been taken?
(a) To the police headquarters.
(b) To a detention camp.
(c) To talk with the Emperor.
(d) To the market.

4. How do the Koreans know the Americans won't bomb them?
(a) It is written in the newspapers.
(b) The Americans have flown over and dropped leaflets.
(c) An American soldier comes to speak at an Assembly.
(d) They don't.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day is it when the mother waits?

2. What is the weather like as they stand on line?

3. Of what is the boy accused?

4. What does the grandfather give the boy for the first time at dinner on his first day of school?

5. What honor is bestowed upon the boy?

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