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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who must attend Sunday school?
(a) Just the wealthy.
(b) All school children, even sick ones.
(c) All the school children, unless they have a note from a doctor.
(d) No-one has to go. It's voluntary.

3. In what activity do the boys plan to participate during the afternoon?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Kite-flying.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Fishing.

4. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?
(a) They enter the army as unwilling "volunteers."
(b) They are sent to jail.
(c) They are sentenced to community service for a month.
(d) They are killed.

5. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?
(a) His father.
(b) His friends in Manchuria.
(c) The boy who makes faces.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes his father off the train?

2. How does the grandmother feel about food?

3. What do the schoolboys invite the boy to do in the afternoon?

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

5. How does the boy feel about the situation of his world as he falls asleep on the Sunday?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the boy respond when the poor children come up to him and ask him to go swimming with them?

2. What is significant about the maps in the classroom?

3. What job do the mother and father have?

4. Why are the Japanese police harassing the father, and how does paperwork help him?

5. What kind of character does the teacher have?

6. What is crossing the river like?

7. How does the boy feel about leaving Manchuria?

8. Why does the boy pretend to be asleep when his mother wakes him up on Sundays?

9. How does the mother show her dedication to her husband?

10. What will happen to the tenant farmer when he gets a wife?

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