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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 kind of play is the sixth grade putting on?

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

3. Why is he upset about his lunch?

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

5. Where do the class members live?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does she come to tell the boy?

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Explain the significance behind the name the father chooses - Iwamoto.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The teacher told the students to leave school to get a new name. Explain why this was a significant event and how the Koreans responded to it.

Essay Topic 3

Why was the family traveling in such harsh conditions and where were they going?

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