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

2. Why don't they wait for the next train?
(a) They don't know if it will come, and they need to leave the town.
(b) They think it would be quicker to take a bus.
(c) They are anxious to get to their destination.
(d) They are worried about who might be on that train.

3. What is a big treat for the poor in the community?
(a) White rice.
(b) Going to church.
(c) Kite-flying.
(d) Going to school.

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

5. Where does the teacher take the boy?
(a) To a Chinese restaurant.
(b) To a disciplinary room in the school.
(c) To the field.
(d) To the beach.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?

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

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

4. What does the ticket clerk tell the mother she should do?

5. What is the view outside the classroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is crossing the river like?

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

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

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

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

6. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

7. What occurs in the bookstore?

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

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

10. What kind of character does the teacher have?

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