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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is chosen to entertain soldiers at the hospital?

2. What food does Hideyo share with his friends?

3. Who do Hideyo and his friends encounter on their journey towards Seoul?

4. What were the Japanese required to surrender to Korean officials before boarding the ship to Japan?

5. When Hideyo leaves his friends, where does he head?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Yoko would have made it this far without Ko?

2. Why do you think "Hideyo talked to himself in his heart"?

3. What sort of traditional Japanese activities is Yoko learning at school?

4. What is the symbolism of Yoko's Mt. Fuji paperweight?

5. In what ways is Yoko having to grow up quickly in Chapter 2?

6. Why do you think Hideyo and his friends take extra care in handling the bodies of women or young girls when they are packing up bodies for disposal?

7. Why is mother upset that Hideyo wants to join the army?

8. Why do you think Hideyo and his friends make a plan to reunite in five years at the Tokyo Bridge?

9. The Korean officials are quite strict about letting only 100 people on the boat. One official says, "the rule is the rule. That is what your government always said to us." Why do you think the soldier delights in saying this to the hundreds of people waiting in line?

10. Why does mother not want to look as the train passes their house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Yoko titled her essay "Understanding?" Do you think a different title would have been more fitting? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Aside from physically being so far from the bamboo grove, how are Yoko and her family symbolically so far from it? In other words, what does the bamboo grove symbolize for them?

Essay Topic 3

How does Japan's historical interest in Korea, particularly in the two World Wars, affect the characters in So Far From the Bamboo Grove?

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