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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What language do the students have to speak after third grade?
(a) English.
(b) Japanese.
(c) German.
(d) Korean.
2. What does the boy observe about his classmates?
(a) They like to pull pranks on each other.
(b) Many are very poor and don't even have socks.
(c) They wish they were Japanese.
(d) They are very well-behaved.
3. Who takes his father off the train?
(a) The conductor.
(b) The engineer.
(c) The Korean Thought Policeman and the Korean Military Policeman.
(d) The Japanese Thought Policeman and the Japanese Military Policeman.
4. In what grade is the boy when they move back from Manchuria?
(a) Eleventh.
(b) Kindergarten.
(c) Seventh.
(d) Second.
5. What is the train compartment like?
(a) It wis overcrowded and stuffy.
(b) It is comfortable and smells of jasmine tea.
(c) It is filthy and loud.
(d) It is half empty and cold with ice on the windows.
6. What is a big treat for the poor in the community?
(a) White rice.
(b) Going to church.
(c) Going to school.
(d) Kite-flying.
7. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?
(a) They know they are going to leave the past behind them as they head for the vast unknown.
(b) The baby is hungry, and they haven't had time to stop for food.
(c) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.
(d) Nobody has gotten off, so the compartment is still overcrowded.
8. Of what is everyone aware?
(a) They are on the cusp of war.
(b) The missionaries are getting too pushy.
(c) There are too many cultures intermixing.
(d) The Koreans are rising in power.
9. How does the boy feel about the situation of his world as he falls asleep on the Sunday?
(a) He is angry.
(b) It makes him cry.
(c) He is content.
(d) He is happy.
10. What flag is flying on the flagpole at the school?
(a) The Japanese flag.
(b) The Chinese flag.
(c) The Russian flag.
(d) The Korean flag.
11. What does the father tell his friends to have?
(a) Patience.
(b) Chutzpa.
(c) Food.
(d) Money.
12. What does the grandfather give the boy for the first time at dinner on his first day of school?
(a) A revolver.
(b) Rice wine.
(c) His own chopsticks.
(d) A journal.
13. Who meets the mother after several hours?
(a) The father.
(b) The ticket clerk.
(c) The conductor, on his way back.
(d) The police.
14. Where does the class go on a field trip the first day of school?
(a) To the soldier training camp.
(b) To see a movie.
(c) To the woods.
(d) To the beach.
15. What do the schoolboys invite the boy to do in the afternoon?
(a) Play football.
(b) Watch a movie with them.
(c) Come to play at their houses.
(d) Swim.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of orchards does the family have?
2. What does the ticket clerk tell the mother she should do?
3. What do they confront when they are near their destination?
4. What happens to the students if they don't bow toward the Japanese Emperor?
5. What makes the mother feel even better about her situation?
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