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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the teacher tell the boy about how his father would react to the field trip?
(a) He would have thought the trip was extremely valuable.
(b) He would have wished that he could be there, too.
(c) He wouldn't have approved.
(d) He would have thought it was a waste of time.

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. Who takes his father off the train?
(a) The Japanese Thought Policeman and the Japanese Military Policeman.
(b) The Korean Thought Policeman and the Korean Military Policeman.
(c) The engineer.
(d) The conductor.

12. What is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?
(a) They will be asked to bring more missionaries.
(b) They will all be evacuated.
(c) They will be killed.
(d) They will be asked to move to other parts within the country.

13. What do the inquisitors accuse the father of doing?
(a) Spying.
(b) Sneaking out of the country.
(c) Murder.
(d) Stealing some important papers.

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

15. Where does the class go on a field trip the first day of school?
(a) To the soldier training camp.
(b) To see a movie.
(c) To the beach.
(d) To the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what activity do the boys plan to participate during the afternoon?

2. How many children will the mother teach?

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

4. What does the grandfather give the boy for the first time at dinner on his first day of school?

5. What treaty is signed in August of 1939?

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