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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What hope did Tree-ear have day after day while working for Min?
(a) He would earn some money.
(b) Crane-man and he would live in Min's house.
(c) He would learn to use the wheel.
(d) Min would adopt him as a son.

3. What was Tree-ear supposed to do with the wood?
(a) Cover it so it didn't get wet.
(b) Chop it into smaller pieces.
(c) Take it to the kiln site.
(d) Stack it next to the house.

4. Where does Tree-ear go after working?
(a) Back to the bridge.
(b) To see the monk who brought him to Ch'ulp'o.
(c) To gather dandelion leaves for a salad.
(d) To play with the other boys.

5. Who is Tree-ear?
(a) A young orphan.
(b) The village potter.
(c) The son of the village commissioner.
(d) The daughter of the village baker.

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

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

8. What opens up when the winter storms stop?
(a) The forest paths.
(b) The frozen river.
(c) The mountain passes.
(d) Sea-trade routes.

9. Where do the travelers take Tree-ear?
(a) Back to Songdo.
(b) To another small village ten miles away.
(c) To stay temporarily with Crane-man.
(d) To the herb woman's house.

10. What does Tree-ear rotate doing?
(a) Cutting clay, draining clay and weeding the garden.
(b) Cutting wood, cutting clay draining clay.
(c) Cutting wood, cutting clay and weeding the garden.
(d) Cutting wood, draining clay and weeding the garden.

11. What does Min do the next morning when Tree-ear arrives?
(a) Yells at him.
(b) Shows him a new crane he is working on.
(c) Tells him to ask his wife for breakfast.
(d) Sends him back to the quarry.

12. What did Crane-man tell Tree-ear about the boy informing Min of Kang's work?
(a) It would be all right.
(b) It would be stealing.
(c) For Tree-ear to ask Kang.
(d) He didn't know the answer.

13. What does the farmer do for Tree-ear?
(a) Allows him the spilled rice.
(b) Hires him to catch his chickens.
(c) Hires him to weed his family garden.
(d) Gives him permission to dig clay in his fallow field.

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

15. In what century is A Single Shard set?
(a) 12th.
(b) 14th.
(c) 10th.
(d) 15th.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tree-ear holding when Min comes out of the house?

2. What does Min insist upon that makes Tree-ear's job even more tedious?

3. Why did Min send Tree-ear to the seashore?

4. What does Tree-ear find difficult?

5. Why does Tree-ear decide to do what he did in question 48?

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