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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. What is one thing Tree-ear inspects at Min's?
(a) A stoneware, heart-shaped bowl.
(b) A melon-shaped bowl.
(c) A procelein seal.
(d) A porcelein bear.

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

3. Where did Tree-ear and Crane-man live during the winter?
(a) In a house in the village.
(b) In a cave in the hills.
(c) A vegetable pit.
(d) At the temple.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the farmer do for Tree-ear?

2. What did Min's wife give Tree-ear?

3. Who is Crane-man?

4. What hope did Tree-ear have day after day while working for Min?

5. What does Tree-ear mix with the clay?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tree-ear do about the problem with his food and what does he find to his surprise in his bowl?

2. What does Tree-ear try to find out and how does his quest end?

3. What does Tree-ear do to pay for the box and how is he disappointed?

4. What kind of work is cutting clay and what does Tree-ear remember while he is cutting?

5. What does Min's wife give Tree-ear and what does Tree-ear do with the gift?

6. What did Tree-ear do about the rice container? What was the farmer's response?

7. How interesting is Tree-ear's third kind of job and why is it more difficult?

8. What does Tree-ear do with his bowl the next day of work and what happens to the food?

9. What is the story of how Tree-ear came to live with Crane-man?

10. What does Tree-ear ask Min when his nine days are done and what is Min's response?

(see the answer keys)

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