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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What vehicle takes the boy to the market?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) An oxcart.
(c) A bus.
(d) A taxi.

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

7. How old is the author in 1933?
(a) 1.
(b) 7.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

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

9. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?
(a) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.
(b) The baby is hungry, and they haven't had time to stop for food.
(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.

10. What time of day is it when the mother waits?
(a) The dawn is just breaking.
(b) It is midmorning.
(c) It is close to noon.
(d) It is night.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives during the special dinner on the first day of school?

2. What does the father tell the mother the baby is doing as they cross the river?

3. What flag is flying on the flagpole at the school?

4. How does the mother react when the train starts moving?

5. Of what is everyone aware?

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