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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tree-ear do about the bowl?
(a) He asks Min for one.
(b) He decides to make a new one.
(c) He fills it with water, and the ants float away.
(d) He finds a more secure place to hide it.

2. What did Min's wife give Tree-ear?
(a) Leather boots.
(b) A pair of pants and a jacket.
(c) A warm scarf.
(d) A hat and some gloves.

3. For how long has Tree-ear been with Crane-man?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 4 years.

4. What happens to Tree-ear as a result of the day's work?
(a) He falls into the river and almost drowns.
(b) He falls asleep without eating.
(c) He gets a bad blister.
(d) He impresses the healer who offers him an apprenticeship.

5. Tree-ear also prepares the clay for __________.
(a) The kiln.
(b) Min's brother.
(c) Pot molds.
(d) Glaze.

6. When would the potters find out the emissary's decision?
(a) In six weeks.
(b) The next morning.
(c) In five months.
(d) In the next month.

7. How did Tree-ear sometimes manage to get winter garments for him and Crane-man?
(a) Taking them from clothes lines.
(b) Begging door to door.
(c) From the monks.
(d) Going through the trash at people's house.

8. Why was firing a piece of pottery so difficult?
(a) The kiln could not be completely sealed.
(b) The wood never burned the same way twice.
(c) The air pockets in the clay would burst.
(d) The rain cooled it down sometimes.

9. What does Tree-ear discover after a few days?
(a) Min's son is coming home soon.
(b) Min's wife is unhappy that Tree-ear is there.
(c) Min is bitter at not having a son.
(d) The bowl is full when he returns to it at the end of the day.

10. What happened to the fields after the rice harvest?
(a) The poor were allowed to collect the droppings.
(b) They were left alone.
(c) They were plowed under.
(d) They were flooded.

11. What happens when Tree-ear is told to leave Crane-man?
(a) He brings Crane-man with him.
(b) He is not told to leave Crane-man.
(c) He refuses.
(d) He tells Crane-man he will come back for him.

12. What was the problem with the sandals Crane-man gave Tree-ear?
(a) They had no left and right foot.
(b) They were too large.
(c) They were too small.
(d) They fell apart.

13. Where does Min send Tree-ear the second day?
(a) To help a potter who is ill.
(b) To weed the garden.
(c) To get wood.
(d) To get straw.

14. What is Tree-ear sent to collect that day that is different from the last 9 days?
(a) Balsite.
(b) Wood.
(c) Quartz.
(d) Clay.

15. What did Min tell Tree-ear to do about setting up the planks for his display?
(a) Set them so the sea was in the background.
(b) Put the planks so the ocean was to the front.
(c) Set the larger planks on the top.
(d) Scatter seashells around the pottery to distract the emissary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tree-ear learn quickly?

2. What does Tree-ear rotate doing?

3. What does Tree-ear realize in the middle of the first day that he is working?

4. What did Crane-man do during the day?

5. What did the village potters begin to do at the kiln?

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