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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 happens to the boy during his punishment?
(a) He realizes he should have apologized.
(b) He passes out.
(c) He is rescued by his fellow students.
(d) He loses control and lashes out at the Japanese.

2. Where is the mother in February?
(a) In church.
(b) In Manchuria.
(c) At the market.
(d) With her parents.

3. What does the boy's new name mean?
(a) Rock-foundation.
(b) Great hunter.
(c) Plant grower.
(d) One of wealth.

4. What do the students do after work at night?
(a) They sleep.
(b) They call home.
(c) They study.
(d) They write letters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the students do when the teacher dismissed them?

2. What does the boy's sister want him to make her?

3. In what kind of drill do the upper-class school children participate?

4. How many students are working?

5. How does the father react when the Inspector tries to bring him to the front of the line?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why there are so many rubber balls in town.

2. What is the class play about, and why does the boy get his part, according to the grandmother?

3. Explain the quandary the classmates are in when the teacher starts attacking the boy? How do they react, and what is the boy's response to them?

4. Why are the people pouring rice wine on the graves?

5. What does she come to tell the boy?

6. Why does the father wear traditional Korean clothing and a black armband to go change his name?

7. Why does the boy have to bring three logs to class, and how does it benefit him?

8. Why does the boy have an issue with his white rice?

9. Why does the grandmother insist on giving the boy white rice in his lunch?

10. How does the boy get to the performance? What is his journey like?

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