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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who tries to fight back as the factory girls are being taken away to be Spirit Girls?
(a) Uncle Tiger.
(b) Kisa.
(c) Inchun.
(d) Grandfather.

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

4. Who does Sookan hate?
(a) Herself.
(b) Captain Narita.
(c) Grandfather.
(d) Inchun.

5. What do most Koreans eat?
(a) Millet and barley.
(b) Wheat bread.
(c) Rice.
(d) Oatmeal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mother's religion?

2. Who does Grandfather want to tell the children about their family?

3. Whose life does Captain Narita threaten?

4. What does "chun" mean?

5. What special food does Mother get for the birthday feast?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mother give up her hairpin and what does she get for it?

2. What does Sookan learn by rubbing Grandfather's feet?

3. Do you think that it was wise of Grandfather to meditate under the tree?

4. How does Sookan try to cheer up Inchun after the pine tree is cut down?

5. What does Captain Narita do to punish the family for having a party?

6. What happens at lunch during Sookan's first day at school?

7. What does the family do for Haiwon's birthday?

8. What is significant about the names of Sookan's brothers?

9. When Kisa is beaten by the Japanese army, how could this be seen as a metaphor for the Korean people?

10. Who is Father Carroll, and why is he important?

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