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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Narita Sensei?
(a) A local gardener.
(b) Sookan's schoolteacher.
(c) A Japanese nun.
(d) Sookan's aunt.

2. What are the normal everyday dishes made of?
(a) Wood.
(b) Paper.
(c) Glass.
(d) Clay.

3. How does Captain Narita take away the factory workers?
(a) He kidnaps them one by one.
(b) He brings in a helicopter and flys them out.
(c) He marches them away in a line.
(d) He has soldiers round them up into a truck.

4. In Chapter 2, whose birthday is coming up?
(a) Sookan's.
(b) Haiwon's.
(c) Inchun's.
(d) Theresa's.

5. What happens when students wet their pants at school?
(a) They have to change their clothes.
(b) They are sent home.
(c) They must scrub the floor.
(d) They are given diapers.

6. After Captain Narita says that he wants to take away the workers to be Spirit Girls, what does Mother do?
(a) Nods her head.
(b) Encourages the workers to be good Spirit Girls.
(c) Begs Captain Narita not to take the girls away.
(d) Suggests they should become nurses instead.

7. At Japanese school, what is against the rules to do?
(a) Share.
(b) Praise the Japanese Emperor.
(c) Make weapons.
(d) Scrub the floor.

8. After the workers are taken away, who takes away all the factory equipment?
(a) No one.
(b) The rental company.
(c) Japanese soldiers.
(d) Mother sells it to the highest bidder and he takes it away.

9. After the birthday feast is interrupted, what does Sookan wish for the first time in her life?
(a) She was Japanese.
(b) She had never been born.
(c) She was dead.
(d) She was pretty.

10. What birthday gift does Mother retrieve?
(a) A bracelet.
(b) Sushi.
(c) A book.
(d) A radio.

11. After Grandfather's death, what is done to help make up for Mother's absent-mindedness?
(a) Sookan and Inchun help make, sort, and fold socks.
(b) Haiwon helps manage the sock factory.
(c) Theresa helps with the housework.
(d) Grandmother helps cook meals.

12. After Grandfather's death, what is Captain Narita's complaint about the factory?
(a) The socks it produces are defective.
(b) The Japanese army no longer needs socks.
(c) There is not enough productivity.
(d) The factory workers make too much noise.

13. After the factory is shut down, what is the family ordered to do?
(a) Start a new factory.
(b) Sell their house.
(c) Begin farming.
(d) Send Sookan to school.

14. What is wrong with Kisa?
(a) He is crippled.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He smells bad.
(d) He is mute.

15. After being beaten at school, who is taking care of Sookan when she wakes up?
(a) Mother.
(b) Grandfather.
(c) Haiwon.
(d) Narita Sensei.

Short Answer Questions

1. At school, who is nice to Sookan?

2. What does the family do to soothe Grandfather while he is sick?

3. Where does Mother travel to in order to get a birthday gift?

4. Who asks Sookan and Inchun to wash Grandfather's feet?

5. What were destroyed to make Shinto shrines?

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