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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. About whom is the boy thinking when he follows through with the tradition?

2. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?

3. How does the boy feel about the situation of his world as he falls asleep on the Sunday?

4. What religion do the father and mother follow?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the boy's family financially?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. The author states that they are leaving their homeland which is not a homeland. Why does he say this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the boy expected to do on Sunday mornings that was different from what his parents had to do? What did he do that was different from the other students?

Essay Topic 2

Describe what happened when the boy was listening to the radio with his grandparents. How did they react? How did the rest of the town react?

Essay Topic 3

What did the townspeople have to do before they were truly liberated? How did they go about doing it? What was the boy's role in this plan?

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