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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 each child in the school required to do?

2. What tip does the mother offer the boy regarding his ten minute speech?

3. What are all the people doing at the cemetery?

4. Where do the class members live?

5. What does the boy's sister want him to make her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the students get to interact with their families?

2. Why does the boy have to bring three logs to class, and how does it benefit him?

3. What do the school children have to do when the boy is in his junior year?

4. What is the boy's condition when he arrives at his home?

5. What is unusual about the mothers visit, and how does she get time with her son?

6. What happens when the students have oozing blisters?

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

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

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

10. What decision does the boy have to make, and what does he tell the Japanese teacher?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the scene in the detention camp. What was the father concerned about, and how did he plan to deal with it? What actually happened?

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 what happened when the boy was listening to the radio with his grandparents. How did they react? How did the rest of the town react?

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