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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 the view outside the classroom?
(a) All they see is the brick wall of the next building.
(b) They have no windows so they can't tell.
(c) It's beautiful.
(d) They look over the soldier's training ground.

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

3. Why is the boy in a hurry to get to Sunday school?
(a) He loves to learn about God.
(b) He knows they are having a special speaker that day.
(c) He is the teacher that day.
(d) He wants to have time with his friends.

4. What does the father say the teacher is?
(a) Arrogant.
(b) Unfair.
(c) Timid.
(d) Presumptuous.

5. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?
(a) They know they are going to leave the past behind them as they head for the vast unknown.
(b) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.
(c) The baby is hungry, and they haven't had time to stop for food.
(d) Nobody has gotten off, so the compartment is still overcrowded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy do to the other boy who accuses him?

2. What happens to the students if they don't bow toward the Japanese Emperor?

3. What does the boy do when his mother tries to wake him up on Sundays?

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

5. Why is the father weak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

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

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

4. How do the Japanese treat the Koreans according to the grandfather?

5. How does the family travel to the town?

6. How does the family show support for the boy when he goes off to school?

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

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

9. What job do the mother and father have?

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

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