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

2. Where does the family live during the summer?
(a) The same place they always live.
(b) In a cottage in the middle of the orchard.
(c) In a beach house.
(d) In an apartment in the city.

3. Who meets the mother after several hours?
(a) The father.
(b) The conductor, on his way back.
(c) The police.
(d) The ticket clerk.

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

5. How old is the author in 1933?
(a) 7.
(b) 1.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?

2. What is happening to the Koreans all around?

3. How does the boy feel as he leaves the school on his first day?

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

5. Why don't they wait for the next train?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the family travel to the town?

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

5. What job do the mother and father have?

6. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

7. What kind of character does the teacher have?

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

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

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

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