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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 teacher do after the war?

2. What is each child in the school required to do?

3. How many students are working?

4. What does the visitor tell the boy?

5. What happens to the boy during his punishment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the morning in the household hectic? Describe the breakfast schedule.

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

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

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

5. What is the students' living situation like?

6. What happens when the students have oozing blisters?

7. What does she come to tell the boy?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What was happening to the food supply of the Koreans? How did this affect the grandmother? How did the boy feel about it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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