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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 does the teacher tell the boy about how his father would react to the field trip?

2. Where does the mother wait for the father?

3. What does the boy do to the other boy who accuses him?

4. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?

5. What position do the classmates think the boy should take over?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 do the people in the train cart treat the mother after the father is taken away?

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

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

7. What kind of character does the teacher have?

8. How does the boy feel about leaving Manchuria?

9. What occurs in the bookstore?

10. What is crossing the river like?

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

Explain what happened to the boy when he showed the Japanese teacher the bag of rubber balls. Why did the teacher react the way he did. How was this tied in with the news the father shared with the Inspector?

Essay Topic 3

Explain in great detail why the Japanese were so interested in the boy's father. Explain why he was imprisoned and why he was interrogated. How did this make the Koreans feel about him?

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