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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. Where does the train stop?

2. How do the other passengers react when the father is being questioned?

3. What does the grandfather say that the Japanese can't take away?

4. Where does the mother wait for the father?

5. What does the map in the classroom depict?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about the maps in the classroom?

2. What job do the mother and father have?

3. How do the Japanese treat the Koreans according to the grandfather?

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

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

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

7. How does the family travel to the town?

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

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

10. How does the mother show her dedication to her husband?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the conditions the students worked in when making the runways. Explain why they didn't just choose to leave school.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The scene where the boy dragged himself to the performance is emotional on several levels. Explain how his family supported him, how he made his protest, and how he reacted emotionally when he started saying his lines. Why do you think he reacted like that?

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