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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the teachers confront each other?
(a) They don't confront each other. They turn away from each other.
(b) They get into a physical fight.
(c) They begin to laugh at the situation.
(d) They get into a verbal battle.

2. How are they going to arrive at their destination?
(a) By car.
(b) They are going to walk across the frozen river.
(c) By wagon.
(d) By bus.

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

4. Who meets the mother after several hours?
(a) The father.
(b) The police.
(c) The conductor, on his way back.
(d) The ticket clerk.

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

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

7. What does the father say the teacher is?
(a) Arrogant.
(b) Unfair.
(c) Timid.
(d) Presumptuous.

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

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

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

11. What bothers the boy as he looks around at his friends who are playing?
(a) He knows they will all die.
(b) They are too rough.
(c) He thinks they are too poor and unkempt.
(d) He knows they are going to lose their names.

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

13. 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.

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

15. Who do the mother and father follow?
(a) The conductor.
(b) The ticket clerk.
(c) The policeman.
(d) An old couple.

Short Answer Questions

1. What honor is bestowed upon the boy?

2. What is happening to the Koreans all around?

3. What does the boy's mother allow him to choose?

4. Where does the teacher take the boy?

5. What do the adults do while the boy is looking through books and magazines?

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