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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy do that surprises the audience at the play?
(a) He protests the fact that someone is playing his part.
(b) He lashes out at the Japanese from stage.
(c) He shows up even though he has beenseverely beaten and can hardly stand.
(d) He performs flawlessly.

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

3. What does the teacher in the sleeping quarters ask of the boy?
(a) He asks the boy for water.
(b) He asks the boy to help him sit up.
(c) He asks the boy to remember how he helped the boy when the war is over.
(d) He asks the boy to read for him.

4. What does the grandmother recommend they do when trying to fill the bag?
(a) She recommends that they leave room to tie it off.
(b) She suggests that they make sure it doesn't get too heavy.
(c) She says to deflate the balls.
(d) She says to add sawdust.

5. Of what is the boy accused?
(a) Being too smart.
(b) Disobedience and voicing dangerous thoughts.
(c) Being too obstinant.
(d) Being too sassy.

6. What does the corporal ask the boy to do?
(a) Take a break.
(b) Dig some more.
(c) Make the beds.
(d) Fill his water bottle.

7. What does the boy decide to do?
(a) He decides to stay with his classmates.
(b) He decides to try to escape.
(c) He decides to go home.
(d) He decides to wait a bit to see how the political situation develops.

8. What kind of new name do the people get?
(a) Long, fancy names.
(b) Names give to the guards by the spirits.
(c) Japanese names.
(d) Names that describe their personalities.

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

10. How does the boy get home after his punishment?
(a) He is carried home by someone who finds him.
(b) His mother comes and picks him up.
(c) By ox cart.
(d) By bus.

11. What kind of play is the sixth grade putting on?
(a) A comedy.
(b) A romance.
(c) One the students wrote themselves.
(d) A war drama.

12. Who goes with the boy to get a new name?
(a) His father.
(b) He goes alone.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His sister.

13. How is the boy's visitor dressed?
(a) He is in full military regalia.
(b) She is in traditional Korean garb.
(c) She is wearing Japanese-style women's pants.
(d) He is wearing Japanese-style men's pants.

14. How many students are working?
(a) 2000.
(b) Between 400 and 500.
(c) 20-30.
(d) Five of the top students.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Koreans know the Americans won't bomb them?

2. What does the grandmother put in the boy's lunch that upsets him?

3. What does the visitor tell the boy?

4. How does the father react when someone offers his spot on line to the father?

5. How does the author feel about the month of February?

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