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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 does the boy observe about his classmates?
(a) They like to pull pranks on each other.
(b) Many are very poor and don't even have socks.
(c) They wish they were Japanese.
(d) They are very well-behaved.

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

3. What is the teacher doing after the bookshop experience that makes the boy comment to his father?
(a) He is tearing up books.
(b) He is pulling at his hair.
(c) He is yelling.
(d) He is crying.

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

5. What kind of faces does the boy who follows the author to school make?
(a) Pig faces.
(b) Mean faces.
(c) Threatening faces.
(d) Comical faces.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the teacher tell the boy about how his father would react to the field trip?

2. What changes are going to happen in school?

3. In what grade is the boy when they move back from Manchuria?

4. How many children will the mother teach?

5. Who helps teach the boy to hunt?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why had the woman's father been sent to jail?

3. What experience has the mother had with jail?

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

5. What is crossing the river like?

6. What occurs in the bookstore?

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

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

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

10. What happens to the boy's teacher?

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