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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to visit the boy after school on the first day?
(a) The police.
(b) The boy who makes faces, on his own.
(c) 14 boys.
(d) Nobody.

2. What does the maid call the boy?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Master.
(c) Stubborn.
(d) Adorable.

3. How does the grandmother feel about food?
(a) She hates cooking.
(b) She makes a feast, thinking there's never enough for everyone.
(c) She feels that a diet should be simple yet solid.
(d) She will only make traditional dishes.

4. What happens to the students if they don't bow toward the Japanese Emperor?
(a) They are beaten.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They have to write an essay on the importance of respect.
(d) They have to go up on stage for a humiliating lecture.

5. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?
(a) His father.
(b) His friends in Manchuria.
(c) His mother.
(d) The boy who makes faces.

6. How does the boy get to school?
(a) By trolley.
(b) By bus.
(c) By carriage.
(d) He walks.

7. What position do the classmates think the boy should take over?
(a) First baseman.
(b) Class negotiator.
(c) Quarterback.
(d) Class leader.

8. Where does the family live during the summer?
(a) The same place they always live.
(b) In an apartment in the city.
(c) In a cottage in the middle of the orchard.
(d) In a beach house.

9. What does the boy do when his mother tries to wake him up on Sundays?
(a) He sings a morning song.
(b) He pretends he is asleep.
(c) He tells her he's already up.
(d) He jumps out of bed.

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

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

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

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

14. What do the father's papers say?
(a) He has been acquitted for his thievery.
(b) He is innocent of murder.
(c) He has permission to travel.
(d) He is allowed out of the country for one week.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What language do the students have to speak after third grade?

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

3. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?

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

5. What changes are going to happen in school?

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