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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 Japanese check on a weekly basis?
(a) Household accounts.
(b) Food supplies.
(c) Class attendance.
(d) Preparedness.

2. What does the boy decide to do?
(a) He decides to stay with his classmates.
(b) He decides to wait a bit to see how the political situation develops.
(c) He decides to try to escape.
(d) He decides to go home.

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

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

5. Under what circumstances can parents visit during the week?
(a) Emergency.
(b) If they have permission from the Inspector.
(c) Any time.
(d) Only if they are invited

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the mother in February?

2. Who comes to visit the boy?

3. What happens to the boy after the class leaves?

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

5. How many students are working?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does she come to tell the boy?

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

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

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

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

10. Why is the morning in the household hectic? Describe the breakfast schedule.

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