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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 ticket clerk tell the mother she should do?

2. What does the maid call the boy?

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

4. Where is the boy going with his father after church?

5. Where does the class go on a field trip the first day of school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What job do the mother and father have?

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

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

7. How does the family travel to the town?

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

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

10. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the Japanese influence in the school. How did it affect the students' school day? How did it affect the boy personally?

Essay Topic 2

What happened politically in August of 1939 that changed the map, and what did this signify? How did the teacher react to the change?

Essay Topic 3

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

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