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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 are the students shoveling?
(a) They are digging graves.
(b) They are working on a runway.
(c) They are digging to make a vegetable garden.
(d) They are digging for landscaping around the school.

2. How many students are working?
(a) 20-30.
(b) 2000.
(c) Five of the top students.
(d) Between 400 and 500.

3. How does the boy get home after his punishment?
(a) His mother comes and picks him up.
(b) By bus.
(c) By ox cart.
(d) He is carried home by someone who finds him.

4. Where is the mother in February?
(a) With her parents.
(b) In Manchuria.
(c) At the market.
(d) In church.

5. What health difficulties do they face?
(a) Sunburns and fevers.
(b) Radiation exposure.
(c) Constant nausea from the fumes.
(d) Dysentery and diarrhea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the boy's visitor dressed?

2. With whom does the mother eat breakfast after she feeds five others?

3. Why are the Korean farmers limiting their crops?

4. How do the Koreans know the Americans won't bomb them?

5. How does the boy's punishment affect the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the boy get to the performance? What is his journey like?

2. What do the school children have to do when the boy is in his junior year?

3. Why does the grandmother insist on giving the boy white rice in his lunch?

4. How does the teacher react to the boy's information?

5. How do the people in the town show the boy their support?

6. What does she come to tell the boy?

7. What is the class play about, and why does the boy get his part, according to the grandmother?

8. Explain the significance behind the name the father chooses - Iwamoto.

9. Why does the father wear traditional Korean clothing and a black armband to go change his name?

10. What is unusual about the mothers visit, and how does she get time with her son?

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