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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 is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?

2. Why does one of the teachers yell at the boy and shake him and hit him?

3. Where is the mother supposed to stay?

4. What flag is flying on the flagpole at the school?

5. What makes the mother feel even better about her situation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of character does the teacher have?

2. Why had the woman's father been sent to jail?

3. How is this school different from the one he used to attending?

4. How does the father show his dedication to his wife?

5. How does the boy respond when the poor children come up to him and ask him to go swimming with them?

6. What job do the mother and father have?

7. What events occur to make the first day of school end poorly?

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

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

10. What occurs in the bookstore?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain what role the boy had to perform in the school play and how he felt about it. How did the Koreans in the town feel about it? How did his family feel about it?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What happened politically in August of 1939 that changed the map, and what did this signify? How did the teacher react to the change?

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