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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 happening to the Koreans all around?
(a) They are starting to become a world trade power.
(b) They are starting to become oppressed by the Russians.
(c) They are starting to become oppressed by the Japanese.
(d) They are beginning to realize the value of their culture.

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) The baby is hungry, and they haven't had time to stop for food.
(d) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.

3. What do the father's papers say?
(a) He has been acquitted for his thievery.
(b) He is allowed out of the country for one week.
(c) He has permission to travel.
(d) He is innocent of murder.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the boy get to school?

2. What does the father say the teacher is?

3. What kind of orchards does the family have?

4. In what language are most of the books in the bookstore written?

5. What position do the classmates think the boy should take over?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is crossing the river like?

2. How is this school different from the one he used to attending?

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

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

5. How does the boy feel about leaving Manchuria?

6. How does the family travel to the town?

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

8. How do the people in the train cart treat the mother after the father is taken away?

9. How does the father show his dedication to his wife?

10. What kind of breakfast does the grandmother make for the family and why?

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