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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 job is the boy given when his hands are bleeding and oozing?

2. How does the boy feel about acting in the play?

3. What does the boy decide to do?

4. Who comes to visit the boy?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the class play about, and why does the boy get his part, according to the grandmother?

2. Why are the people pouring rice wine on the graves?

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

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

5. What does she come to tell the boy?

6. What is the students' living situation like?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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

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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