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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the mother wait for the father?
(a) Inside the station house.
(b) On the train.
(c) In town.
(d) Outside the station house.

2. What kind of orchards does the family have?
(a) Walnut.
(b) Mangoe.
(c) Acai.
(d) Apple.

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

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

5. In what language are most of the books in the bookstore written?
(a) Japanese.
(b) German.
(c) Korean.
(d) Russian.

6. What does the father tell his friends to have?
(a) Chutzpa.
(b) Patience.
(c) Money.
(d) Food.

7. How does the mother react when the train starts moving?
(a) She faints.
(b) She starts running up and down the corridor looking for her husband.
(c) She gets off the train.
(d) She starts screaming at the conductor.

8. Where is the mother supposed to stay?
(a) At the police headquarters.
(b) On the train.
(c) With some friends in the area.
(d) In the station house.

9. Who helps teach the boy to hunt?
(a) His teacher.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) A tenant farmer.
(d) His father.

10. What does the father tell the mother the baby is doing as they cross the river?
(a) Eating.
(b) Smiling.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Gurgling happily.

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

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

13. What treaty is signed in August of 1939?
(a) The Japanese-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(b) The Japanese-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(c) The German-Japanese Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(d) The German-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.

14. Where is the boy going with his father after church?
(a) Hiking.
(b) The bookstore.
(c) To a restaurant.
(d) Fishing.

15. Why is the father weak?
(a) He is getting old.
(b) He has been in jail for years for his resistance-movement activities.
(c) He has recently been ill.
(d) He is fasting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does one of the teachers yell at the boy and shake him and hit him?

2. Who meets the mother after several hours?

3. What does the class helper do as he greets the teacher?

4. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?

5. How does the boy feel as he leaves the school on his first day?

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