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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes are going to happen in school?

2. Where does the teacher take the boy?

3. What does the father tell the mother the baby is doing as they cross the river?

4. How does the mother feel about her new situation?

5. What danger do they face as they cross the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the boy respond when the poor children come up to him and ask him to go swimming with them?

2. What experience has the mother had with jail?

3. What happens to the boy's teacher?

4. How does the mother show her dedication to her husband?

5. What occurs in the bookstore?

6. Why are the Japanese police harassing the father, and how does paperwork help him?

7. How do the Japanese treat the Koreans according to the grandfather?

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

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

10. What job do the mother and father have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the events that occurred in the book store. Who was there? What did they talk about? What changes did the boy observe in his teacher?

Essay Topic 2

Describe what the Koreans were doing in the cemetery. How did the boy feel about the situation? How did his father feel about it?

Essay Topic 3

Why was the family traveling in such harsh conditions and where were they going?

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