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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 does Crane-man tell Tree-ear the first potters did?
(a) Considered pottery making a respected trade.
(b) Considered pottery an art, not a trade.
(c) Made objects for use, not beauty.
(d) Learned their trade by trial and error.

2. What did Tree-ear do at Min's house the day the emissary awarded the commission to Kang?
(a) Nothing, Min sent him home.
(b) Scrubbed the potter's wheel.
(c) Pulled weeds in the garden.
(d) Chopped wood.

3. What worried Tree-ear about leaving Crane-man?
(a) He might fall in the river.
(b) He might lose his crutch.
(c) How he would eat.
(d) He would have no one to talk with.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tree-ear find at the end of each day on his journey for his first six days?

2. How long was Kang's commission to last?

3. What did Min say about the gift Tree-ear had given Crane-man before he left?

4. How is the wood laid in the kiln?

5. What did Tree-ear do on the rock after the bandits left?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kindness did the emissary show Min?

2. What does Min's wife request of Crane-man? What is his response? What is Tree-ear's response?

3. How does Tree-ear feel and what does he do after the two men leave him at the Rock?

4. What does Tree-ear do on his first day back at the village?

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

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

7. What do Tree-ear and Min do with the pots early in the morning and what does Tree-ear to for several days after?

8. What does Tree-ear first do at the Rock of Falling Flowers?

9. What does Min say to Tree-ear's suggestion and what is Tree-ear's response to her?

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

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