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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 visitor tell the boy?
(a) The school is sending more workers.
(b) The father is in prison.
(c) The Japanese are losing, and the war is almost over.
(d) The grandfather is dead.

2. How does the boy get home after his punishment?
(a) By ox cart.
(b) By bus.
(c) He is carried home by someone who finds him.
(d) His mother comes and picks him up.

3. What does the visitor bring the boy?
(a) Snacks.
(b) Bandages.
(c) Sheets and underwear.
(d) Books.

4. Why is it particularly hurtful to the Koreans to lose their names?
(a) They can't pronounce the new names.
(b) They have great respect for their ancestors.
(c) They have lost everything else.
(d) They always have to do what the Japanese demand, and it's humiliating.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How often dothey get to see their families?

3. How does the grandmother react to the name situation?

4. What does the boy do that surprises the audience at the play?

5. How does the author feel about the month of February?

Short Essay Questions

1. The boy is having trouble with his collection. What is his dilemma, and with what solution does his grandmother come up?

2. What does she come to tell the boy?

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

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

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

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

7. What is February like?

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

9. 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?

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

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