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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. How does the teacher respond to the boy's message?

2. What health difficulties do they face?

3. Who goes with the boy to get a new name?

4. Where does the father get his inspiration for the name?

5. How does the boy's punishment affect the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the boy get to the performance? What is his journey like?

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

3. What is the students' living situation like?

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

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

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

7. How does the teacher react to the boy's information?

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

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

10. The boy is having trouble with his collection. What is his dilemma, and with what solution does his grandmother come up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the boy expected to do on Sunday mornings that was different from what his parents had to do? What did he do that was different from the other students?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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