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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 boy do that surprises the audience at the play?
(a) He performs flawlessly.
(b) He protests the fact that someone is playing his part.
(c) He shows up even though he has beenseverely beaten and can hardly stand.
(d) He lashes out at the Japanese from stage.

2. What happens to the boy during his punishment?
(a) He is rescued by his fellow students.
(b) He passes out.
(c) He realizes he should have apologized.
(d) He loses control and lashes out at the Japanese.

3. What do the students do after work at night?
(a) They study.
(b) They write letters.
(c) They call home.
(d) They sleep.

4. Why is he upset about his lunch?
(a) It tastes gross.
(b) It's never enough food.
(c) It makes him feel like a baby.
(d) The other kids take it and always want him to share it.

5. What does the boy's new name mean?
(a) Rock-foundation.
(b) Great hunter.
(c) Plant grower.
(d) One of wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the students do when the teacher dismissed them?

2. What kind of play is the sixth grade putting on?

3. What is each child in the school required to do?

4. Why does each class go to the shrine once a week?

5. What does the boy decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the students get to interact with their families?

3. Why does the boy have to bring three logs to class, and how does it benefit him?

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

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

6. Why does the boy have an issue with his white rice?

7. Explain the quandary the classmates are in when the teacher starts attacking the boy? How do they react, and what is the boy's response to them?

8. What decision does the boy have to make, and what does he tell the Japanese teacher?

9. What is the irony of the shrine that the children have to go to weekly?

10. What is the boy's condition when he arrives at his home?

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