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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the schoolboys invite the boy to do in the afternoon?
(a) Play football.
(b) Swim.
(c) Come to play at their houses.
(d) Watch a movie with them.

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

4. Of what is everyone aware?
(a) The Koreans are rising in power.
(b) There are too many cultures intermixing.
(c) They are on the cusp of war.
(d) The missionaries are getting too pushy.

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

6. What kind of faces does the boy who follows the author to school make?
(a) Mean faces.
(b) Pig faces.
(c) Threatening faces.
(d) Comical faces.

7. Who arrives during the special dinner on the first day of school?
(a) The boy who makes faces.
(b) The police.
(c) The teacher.
(d) A missionary.

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

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

10. What does the grandfather say that the Japanese can't take away?
(a) His brain.
(b) His heart.
(c) His life.
(d) His will.

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

12. Who must attend Sunday school?
(a) No-one has to go. It's voluntary.
(b) Just the wealthy.
(c) All school children, even sick ones.
(d) All the school children, unless they have a note from a doctor.

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

14. What danger do they face as they cross the river?
(a) Recognition.
(b) They might get arrested.
(c) The bridge could collapse at any time.
(d) Thin ice and slipperyness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father say the teacher is?

2. How do the other passengers react when the father is being questioned?

3. Why is the boy in a hurry to get to Sunday school?

4. What bothers the boy as he looks around at his friends who are playing?

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

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