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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the mother react when the train starts moving?
(a) She starts running up and down the corridor looking for her husband.
(b) She gets off the train.
(c) She starts screaming at the conductor.
(d) She faints.

2. What do the father's papers say?
(a) He has been acquitted for his thievery.
(b) He is innocent of murder.
(c) He has permission to travel.
(d) He is allowed out of the country for one week.

3. Why is it upsetting when the train begins to move?
(a) It isn't supposed to leave for another hour, and the father isn't back.
(b) Nobody has gotten off, so the compartment is still overcrowded.
(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.

4. Why is the boy in a hurry to get to Sunday school?
(a) He wants to have time with his friends.
(b) He is the teacher that day.
(c) He knows they are having a special speaker that day.
(d) He loves to learn about God.

5. What treaty is signed in August of 1939?
(a) The German-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(b) The German-Japanese Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(c) The Japanese-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.
(d) The Japanese-Russian Mutual Non-Agression Treaty.

6. What does the ticket clerk tell the mother she should do?
(a) Search for her husband.
(b) Come inside.
(c) Go back home.
(d) Get on the next train.

7. What do they confront when they are near their destination?
(a) Cracks in the ice near the shoreline.
(b) Police barricades.
(c) Mobs of people ready to send them back.
(d) Political protests.

8. Who comes to visit the boy after school on the first day?
(a) The boy who makes faces, on his own.
(b) 14 boys.
(c) The police.
(d) Nobody.

9. Who must attend Sunday school?
(a) Just the wealthy.
(b) No-one has to go. It's voluntary.
(c) All the school children, unless they have a note from a doctor.
(d) All school children, even sick ones.

10. What does the class helper do as he greets the teacher?
(a) He extends a gift to the teacher.
(b) He shakes his hand.
(c) He bows.
(d) He salutes.

11. Why is the father leaving the country?
(a) He has been run out of his own hometown.
(b) He wants to start fresh.
(c) He wants to learn about different cultures.
(d) He is going to teach at a Christian school.

12. What happens to many delinquent Koreans?
(a) They are killed.
(b) They are sent to jail.
(c) They enter the army as unwilling "volunteers."
(d) They are sentenced to community service for a month.

13. What changes are going to happen in school?
(a) The classes are going to be merged.
(b) The students are going to begin military training.
(c) All the classes are going to be taught in Japanese, even for the lower grades.
(d) The older students will be allowed to talk in Korean.

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

15. How does the boy get to school?
(a) He walks.
(b) By bus.
(c) By carriage.
(d) By trolley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes his father off the train?

2. What time of day is it when the mother waits?

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

4. What kind of faces does the boy who follows the author to school make?

5. How many children will the mother teach?

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