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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. Why was the bandit angry at Tree-ear?
(a) The shirt was too small for him.
(b) Tree-ear had no coins.
(c) There was no rice in the jiggeh.
(d) The sandals were too small for him.

2. What did Tree-ear do to protect himself from the broken pottery?
(a) Wrapped it in the silk that was inside the pottery.
(b) Wrapped it in his clay.
(c) Wrapped it in rice straw from his jiggeh.
(d) Wrapped it in his tunic.

3. What song did Tree-ear begin to sing while he was walking?
(a) A marching song.
(b) A song Crane-man taught him.
(c) Min's throwing song.
(d) A lullaby his mother sang to him.

4. How did Min tell Tree-ear he wanted the red and white pottery drained for the inlays?
(a) For it to be drained like the brown clay.
(b) As if for glaze.
(c) For him to drain it only two times.
(d) For it not to drain.

5. What traits did Tree-ear think were close companions?
(a) Pride and failure.
(b) Pride and foolishness.
(c) Carelessness and failure.
(d) Foolishness and hurry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the bandits do with the two vases?

2. What did Tree-ear see as one of the major differences between Min's inlay cuts and Kang's?

3. What did Crane-man often do when Tree-ear was coming home so late from work?

4. What did Tree-ear begin to form with a ball of clay on his first night alone in the woods?

5. What did Tree-ear have tied to the bottom of his pack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with Tree-ear and the fox?

2. What is the story behind the place called Rock of the Falling Flowers and what has Tree-ear promised Crane-man about the place?

3. How does Crane-man feel when Tree-ear tells him of his proposal? What does Crane-man do for the trip? How does Min upset Tree-ear?

4. What does Tree-ear give Crane-man before he leaves on his journey?

5. What does Min's wife tell Tree-ear about a possible living arrangement? What does Min tell Tree-ear to do at the end of the book?

6. How does Tree-ear feel when he arrives in Songdo and what happens at first about his request to the guards?

7. What happens when the emissary returns to the village?

8. What does Tree-ear realize he can do?

9. Who joins Tree-ear at the rock and what does Tree-ear realize?

10. How does Tree-ear feel about what Min said to him?

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