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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What vehicle takes the women to the market?
(a) An oxcart.
(b) A Bicycle.
(c) A taxi.
(d) A bus.

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

3. Where is the mother supposed to stay?
(a) With some friends in the area.
(b) On the train.
(c) At the police headquarters.
(d) In the station house.

4. How do the children at the school react to him?
(a) They greet him like he is a hero.
(b) They overwhelm him with questions about Manchuria.
(c) They turn their backs on him and make mean gestures.
(d) They laugh and giggle at him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy observe about his classmates?

2. What do the schoolboys invite the boy to do in the afternoon?

3. Why is the father leaving the country?

4. What changes are going to happen in school?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of character does the teacher have?

2. Why do they make the decision to walk across the frozen river?

3. How is the boy's family financially?

4. Why had the woman's father been sent to jail?

5. What job do the mother and father have?

6. The author states that they are leaving their homeland which is not a homeland. Why does he say this?

7. How does the family travel to the town?

8. How does the family show support for the boy when he goes off to school?

9. What is a "Special Volunteer Soldier"?

10. What is crossing the river like?

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