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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 tip does the mother offer the boy regarding his ten minute speech?
(a) She reminds him to speak loudly.
(b) She reminds him not to mumble.
(c) She reminds him that the speech is long and easy to forget.
(d) She reminds him to use hand motions to make the speech more interesting.

2. How does the teacher respond to the boy's message?
(a) He understands and signs the necessary paperwork.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He refuses to talk with the boy.
(d) He strikes the boy.

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

4. How does the father react when someone offers his spot on line to the father?
(a) He takes the spot as if he deserves it.
(b) He thanks him and changes spots.
(c) He pretends that he doesn't hear the man.
(d) He respectfully refuses to change spots.

5. What does the boy's sister want him to make her?
(a) A fort.
(b) Breakfast.
(c) Ice skates.
(d) A doll.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the boy's uncle?

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

3. What happens to the boy during his punishment?

4. How does the boy feel about acting in the play?

5. What happens when the boy won't apologize?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does she come to tell the boy?

4. What happens when the students have oozing blisters?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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