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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part does the boy have in the play?
(a) He is the clown.
(b) He is a Japanese Lieutenant.
(c) He is the sun.
(d) He is the suitor.

2. How does the boy's punishment affect the play?
(a) It doesn't affect it at all.
(b) He can't wear any makeup.
(c) He can't walk so he has to do his part sitting down.
(d) They haveto find someone else to do his part.

3. What does the corporal ask the boy to do?
(a) Fill his water bottle.
(b) Take a break.
(c) Make the beds.
(d) Dig some more.

4. How does the boy feel about acting in the play?
(a) He is nervous.
(b) He can't wait.
(c) He is proud of his part.
(d) He doesn't want to do it.

5. What do the students do when the teacher dismissed them?
(a) They go off to get help.
(b) They attack the teacher.
(c) They run out of the room as fast as they can.
(d) They sit and wait for the boy to dismiss them.

6. How do the Koreans know the Americans won't bomb them?
(a) It is written in the newspapers.
(b) An American soldier comes to speak at an Assembly.
(c) The Americans have flown over and dropped leaflets.
(d) They don't.

7. What does the grandmother recommend they do when trying to fill the bag?
(a) She says to add sawdust.
(b) She suggests that they make sure it doesn't get too heavy.
(c) She recommends that they leave room to tie it off.
(d) She says to deflate the balls.

8. Who talks with the boy about the lunch issue?
(a) The grandmother.
(b) The mother.
(c) The father.
(d) The sister.

9. What does the boy's sister want him to make her?
(a) A doll.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) A fort.
(d) Ice skates.

10. What does the grandmother give the boy to help him keep warm?
(a) A new jacket.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A hot sweet potato.
(d) Mittens.

11. In what kind of drill do the upper-class school children participate?
(a) Bombing drills.
(b) Drills with bamboo spears.
(c) Shooting drills.
(d) Fire drills.

12. What does the teacher do after the war?
(a) He is part of a labor gang.
(b) Nothing. He is killed.
(c) He becomes a teacher for Korea.
(d) He comes to the family for help.

13. What kind of new name do the people get?
(a) Japanese names.
(b) Names that describe their personalities.
(c) Names give to the guards by the spirits.
(d) Long, fancy names.

14. For what does the teacher send the students home?
(a) They want to have a teacher's meeting.
(b) Rubber balls.
(c) A list of household members.
(d) Money.

15. How does the restaurant owner react when the boy comes for food in costume?
(a) He is in awe of the creativity behind the costume.
(b) He tells the boy never to come back if he's dressed like that.
(c) He laughs at the silliness of it.
(d) He says he'll help the boy with final touches on the costume.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does each class go to the shrine once a week?

2. What does the grandmother put in the boy's lunch that upsets him?

3. What does the teacher realize when the boy comes to talk with him?

4. How does the boy initially feel about his own stubbornness?

5. How is the boy's visitor dressed?

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