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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the ticket clerk tell the mother she should do?
(a) Get on the next train.
(b) Go back home.
(c) Come inside.
(d) Search for her husband.

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

3. Who is supposed to help the mother?
(a) The conductor.
(b) The station clerk.
(c) The father.
(d) The police.

4. How does the boy feel about the situation of his world as he falls asleep on the Sunday?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is happy.
(c) It makes him cry.
(d) He is content.

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

6. 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) They look over the soldier's training ground.
(d) It's beautiful.

7. 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.

8. How does the boy feel as he leaves the school on his first day?
(a) He is happy he has friends.
(b) He is very homesick for Manchuria.
(c) He feels very isolated.
(d) He never wants to go back.

9. Why does one of the teachers yell at the boy and shake him and hit him?
(a) He makes a mess with his lunch.
(b) He leaves too early for the field trip.
(c) The boy doesn't know because he can't understand Japanese.
(d) He isn't wearing his uniform properly.

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

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

12. What happens when the mother realizes she doesn't have her ticket?
(a) They take her jewelry to pay for the ticket.
(b) Those around her understand her situation so it is all right.
(c) She is kicked off the train with her baby.
(d) They tell her to run and get it from her husband, but to leave the baby on the train.

13. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?
(a) They are sent to jail.
(b) They enter the army as unwilling "volunteers."
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are sentenced to community service for a month.

14. What does the boy do to the other boy who accuses him?
(a) He attacks him.
(b) He asks for proof.
(c) He ignores him.
(d) He apologizes to him.

15. What do the adults do while the boy is looking through books and magazines?
(a) They discuss books.
(b) They have coffee together.
(c) They write political propoganda.
(d) They whisper about the war.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the father's papers say?

3. What is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?

4. What happens to many who make the crossing?

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

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