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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 boy's punishment affect the play?

2. How does the sister feel about the new baby?

3. How does the father react when someone offers his spot on line to the father?

4. What happens to the boy after the class leaves?

5. What is the weather like as they stand on line?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does she come to tell the boy?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Explain what role the boy had to perform in the school play and how he felt about it. How did the Koreans in the town feel about it? How did his family feel about it?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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