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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Is Someone Dying?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the students told about Germany?
(a) They are told nothing about a surrender.
(b) They are told that Germany is giving Japan more munitions.
(c) They are told that Germany has surrendered.
(d) They are told that America has joined forces with Germany.

2. For what does the teacher ask the students?
(a) Money.
(b) Their new names.
(c) Attention.
(d) Food.

3. How does the teacher respond to the boy's message?
(a) He strikes the boy.
(b) He refuses to talk with the boy.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He understands and signs the necessary paperwork.

4. Why is it particularly hurtful to the Koreans to lose their names?
(a) They have lost everything else.
(b) They always have to do what the Japanese demand, and it's humiliating.
(c) They have great respect for their ancestors.
(d) They can't pronounce the new names.

5. Why are the Korean farmers limiting their crops?
(a) They are tired of farming.
(b) The Japanese are requisitioning their growth.
(c) It's a bad year.
(d) They don't have the money to plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the grandfather give the boy for the first time at dinner on his first day of school?

2. What happens to the students if they don't bow toward the Japanese Emperor?

3. What does the teacher tell the boy about how his father would react to the field trip?

4. What is going to happen to the missionaries in Manchuria?

5. What job is the boy given when his hands are bleeding and oozing?

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