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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 a big treat for the poor in the community?

2. What honor is bestowed upon the boy?

3. What language do the students have to speak after third grade?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the boy's family financially?

5. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe what the Koreans were doing in the cemetery. How did the boy feel about the situation? How did his father feel about it?

Essay Topic 3

Why was the Japanese teacher beating the boy? How did the boy's family react to the situation? How did his new friends react?

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