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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. Of what is everyone aware?

2. Where does the family live during the summer?

3. How does the grandmother feel about food?

4. Who takes his father off the train?

5. What is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of character does the teacher have?

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

4. Why do they make the decision to walk across the frozen river?

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

6. What occurs in the bookstore?

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

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

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

10. How does the family travel to the town?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Japanese teacher made comments which implied that he knew that if the boy left, things were going badly and the end was near. Why did he say that, and what was actually happening in Germany and Japan?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Describe the events that occurred in the book store. Who was there? What did they talk about? What changes did the boy observe in his teacher?

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