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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 do the students do when the teacher dismissed them?
(a) They run out of the room as fast as they can.
(b) They sit and wait for the boy to dismiss them.
(c) They attack the teacher.
(d) They go off to get help.

2. What does the corporal ask the boy to do?
(a) Fill his water bottle.
(b) Make the beds.
(c) Dig some more.
(d) Take a break.

3. What does the teacher realize when the boy comes to talk with him?
(a) He realizes that the boy is very ill.
(b) The boy is now a man.
(c) He realizes that he needs help sitting up.
(d) He realizes the war is over.

4. How does the boy initially feel about his own stubbornness?
(a) It surprises him.
(b) It feels good.
(c) It feels strange.
(d) It terrifies him.

5. What do the classmates think of the teacher who lives with them?
(a) They don't respect him.
(b) He is greatly respected.
(c) He is a father figure to them.
(d) They resent him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the students do after work at night?

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

3. What does the boy's sister want him to make her?

4. What are the students shoveling?

5. Where does the father get his inspiration for the name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain why there are so many rubber balls in town.

3. Why are the people pouring rice wine on the graves?

4. What is February like?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does she come to tell the boy?

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