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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what grade is the boy when they move back from Manchuria?
(a) Second.
(b) Seventh.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) Eleventh.

2. What is happening to the Koreans all around?
(a) They are starting to become oppressed by the Russians.
(b) They are starting to become oppressed by the Japanese.
(c) They are starting to become a world trade power.
(d) They are beginning to realize the value of their culture.

3. Why is the father weak?
(a) He has recently been ill.
(b) He is getting old.
(c) He is fasting.
(d) He has been in jail for years for his resistance-movement activities.

4. What is the view outside the classroom?
(a) All they see is the brick wall of the next building.
(b) It's beautiful.
(c) They have no windows so they can't tell.
(d) They look over the soldier's training ground.

5. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?
(a) Nobody has gotten off, so the compartment is still overcrowded.
(b) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.
(c) The baby is hungry, and they haven't had time to stop for food.
(d) They know they are going to leave the past behind them as they head for the vast unknown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does each class go to the shrine once a week?

2. What are all the people doing at the cemetery?

3. What changes are going to happen in school?

4. How does the boy get home after his punishment?

5. Who goes with the boy to get a new name?

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