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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. How do the other passengers react when the father is being questioned?
(a) They ask why he is being questioned.
(b) They stand up and defend him.
(c) They turn their heads and look away.
(d) They push the inquisitors out of the compartment.

2. Why is the father leaving the country?
(a) He wants to learn about different cultures.
(b) He has been run out of his own hometown.
(c) He is going to teach at a Christian school.
(d) He wants to start fresh.

3. Where is the boy going with his father after church?
(a) Hiking.
(b) To a restaurant.
(c) The bookstore.
(d) Fishing.

4. How does the boy get to school?
(a) By trolley.
(b) He walks.
(c) By bus.
(d) By carriage.

5. What religion do the father and mother follow?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Taoism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children at the school react to him?

2. How does the grandmother feel about food?

3. What kind of faces does the boy who follows the author to school make?

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

5. What happens to Pumpkin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the boy feel about leaving Manchuria?

2. Explain why the boy says that the morning formation is like a military formation.

3. What is crossing the river like?

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

5. What events occur to make the first day of school end poorly?

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

7. What kind of character does the teacher have?

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

9. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

10. What job do the mother and father have?

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