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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the teacher take the boy?
(a) To a Chinese restaurant.
(b) To the beach.
(c) To the field.
(d) To a disciplinary room in the school.

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

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

4. What vehicle takes the women to the market?
(a) A Bicycle.
(b) An oxcart.
(c) A bus.
(d) A taxi.

5. What is the train compartment like?
(a) It is half empty and cold with ice on the windows.
(b) It is filthy and loud.
(c) It wis overcrowded and stuffy.
(d) It is comfortable and smells of jasmine tea.

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

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

8. Why is the boy in a hurry to get to Sunday school?
(a) He knows they are having a special speaker that day.
(b) He is the teacher that day.
(c) He wants to have time with his friends.
(d) He loves to learn about God.

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

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

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

12. How do the other passengers react when the father is being questioned?
(a) They turn their heads and look away.
(b) They ask why he is being questioned.
(c) They stand up and defend him.
(d) They push the inquisitors out of the compartment.

13. Why is the father weak?
(a) He has recently been ill.
(b) He has been in jail for years for his resistance-movement activities.
(c) He is fasting.
(d) He is getting old.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who do the mother and father follow?

4. Of what is everyone aware?

5. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?

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