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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 visitor tell the boy?

2. How does the father react when the Inspector tries to bring him to the front of the line?

3. What are the students shoveling?

4. With whom does the mother eat breakfast after she feeds five others?

5. How does the author feel about the month of February?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the father wear traditional Korean clothing and a black armband to go change his name?

2. Why does the grandmother insist on giving the boy white rice in his lunch?

3. What does she come to tell the boy?

4. Explain the quandary the classmates are in when the teacher starts attacking the boy? How do they react, and what is the boy's response to them?

5. What happens when the students have oozing blisters?

6. What is the class play about, and why does the boy get his part, according to the grandmother?

7. What is the irony of the shrine that the children have to go to weekly?

8. How do the people in the town show the boy their support?

9. Why does the boy have an issue with his white rice?

10. Explain why there are so many rubber balls in town.

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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