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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 do the students do when the teacher dismissed them?
(a) They attack the teacher.
(b) They run out of the room as fast as they can.
(c) They sit and wait for the boy to dismiss them.
(d) They go off to get help.

2. What does the father tell his friends to have?
(a) Patience.
(b) Food.
(c) Chutzpa.
(d) Money.

3. What happens when the mother realizes she doesn't have her ticket?
(a) They take her jewelry to pay for the ticket.
(b) Those around her understand her situation so it is all right.
(c) They tell her to run and get it from her husband, but to leave the baby on the train.
(d) She is kicked off the train with her baby.

4. What kind of faces does the boy who follows the author to school make?
(a) Threatening faces.
(b) Comical faces.
(c) Pig faces.
(d) Mean faces.

5. What does the boy's sister want him to make her?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Ice skates.
(c) A doll.
(d) A fort.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the father's papers say?

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

3. How old is the author in 1933?

4. In what tradition does the teacher ask the boy to participate on his first day in school?

5. What does the grandfather say that the Japanese can't take away?

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