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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How many children will the mother teach?
(a) About 12.
(b) About 25.
(c) About 50.
(d) Three.

7. What happens to Pumpkin?
(a) He drowns.
(b) He decides he want to be class leader.
(c) He is arrested.
(d) He rns away.

8. What does the map in the classroom depict?
(a) The advance of German rule.
(b) The shifting of the continents.
(c) Only Japan.
(d) The topography of the area.

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

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

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

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

13. What does the father tell his friends to have?
(a) Food.
(b) Chutzpa.
(c) Patience.
(d) Money.

14. What honor is bestowed upon the boy?
(a) He reads the scriptures.
(b) He is the class leader.
(c) He is the class treasurer.
(d) He is the acolyte.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the father say the teacher is?

3. Who do the mother and father follow?

4. What happens to many who make the crossing?

5. What happens when the mother realizes she doesn't have her ticket?

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