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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 all the people doing at the cemetery?
(a) Saying prayers for the dead.
(b) Putting flowers on the graves.
(c) Preparing their own graves.
(d) Apologizing to their ancestors.

2. How does the author feel about the month of February?
(a) It's a gloomy and cruel month.
(b) It's a month for reflection.
(c) It's a month for planning for spring.
(d) It's a month of hope.

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

4. What does the grandmother give the boy to help him keep warm?
(a) A hot sweet potato.
(b) A new jacket.
(c) A scarf.
(d) Mittens.

5. Of what is the boy accused?
(a) Being too obstinant.
(b) Being too sassy.
(c) Being too smart.
(d) Disobedience and voicing dangerous thoughts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the mother in February?

2. Why is it particularly hurtful to the Koreans to lose their names?

3. For what does the teacher send the students home?

4. What does the teacher in the sleeping quarters ask of the boy?

5. What part does the boy have in the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when the students have oozing blisters?

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

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