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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of orchards does the family have?

2. What is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?

3. How does the mother feel about her new situation?

4. Who helps teach the boy to hunt?

5. What does the father tell his friends to have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the morning assembly like at the school?

2. Why does the boy pretend to be asleep when his mother wakes him up on Sundays?

3. Explain why the boy says that the morning formation is like a military formation.

4. What job do the mother and father have?

5. Why are the Japanese police harassing the father, and how does paperwork help him?

6. What experience has the mother had with jail?

7. Why do they make the decision to walk across the frozen river?

8. How does the family show support for the boy when he goes off to school?

9. What will happen to the tenant farmer when he gets a wife?

10. What kind of breakfast does the grandmother make for the family and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was happening to the food supply of the Koreans? How did this affect the grandmother? How did the boy feel about it?

Essay Topic 2

The teacher told the students to leave school to get a new name. Explain why this was a significant event and how the Koreans responded to it.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the scene in the detention camp. What was the father concerned about, and how did he plan to deal with it? What actually happened?

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