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

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

3. How does the mother react when the train starts moving?
(a) She starts screaming at the conductor.
(b) She starts running up and down the corridor looking for her husband.
(c) She faints.
(d) She gets off the train.

4. What does the boy do when his mother tries to wake him up on Sundays?
(a) He sings a morning song.
(b) He jumps out of bed.
(c) He tells her he's already up.
(d) He pretends he is asleep.

5. What does the class helper do as he greets the teacher?
(a) He salutes.
(b) He shakes his hand.
(c) He bows.
(d) He extends a gift to the teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to many who make the crossing?

2. What language do the students have to speak after third grade?

3. Why does one of the teachers yell at the boy and shake him and hit him?

4. In what tradition does the teacher ask the boy to participate on his first day in school?

5. What does the boy's mother allow him to choose?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do they make the decision to walk across the frozen river?

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

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

4. How does the boy feel about leaving Manchuria?

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

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

7. The author states that they are leaving their homeland which is not a homeland. Why does he say this?

8. What job do the mother and father have?

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

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

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